Hello programmers! I’ve been making a living for a couple of decades figuring out stuff for people and coding whatever will make them happy. It’s fun. I’ve grown to prefer the people to the coding but I still get a kick out of the whole thing.
The problem is: at the job we’re being asked to pivot to vibe coding. At this point the order is to use it for all code, read the slop carefully, argue with the machine for way too long and only then open that PR. Massive productivity gains are expected. I’m appalled from an ethical, philosophical and professional standpoint. We’re a non-profit ngo ffs. My colleagues are fine with it. If I get even slightly critical the group goes awkwardly silent and I get comments on how all the programmers they know from other places don’t code anymore.
If this is how it goes from now on, I’m out. Is it really though? Are all businesses switching to vibe coding? Have some of you started switching career? I think I want to go to meatspace. Hand-made coding could make a cute hobby.
This Firmware was done with gemini (3.8 fast) so not even a very good model. I didn’t even look at the output as antigravity pushed the code directly to the keyboard and now it can do VIA. Usually I use fable 5.1 at work, which is obviously a frontier model. What I did do was set up the entire project by hand, added architecture files and do extremely detailed planning on what is to do. The I let the agent do the job, create tests and follow my initial design. Works pretty well. And even then, a reactor is cheap.