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.
I’m being migrating all my team code from SAS to Python from the past year or so, slowly but firmly. Another team went full on on vibe coding their SAS to Python and now I’m being told that I’m being move to their team to refractor all that vibe code because the results are incorrect and nobody understands what the vibe code is doing. I checked up quickly to know what I’m going to find and the Claude Code just translate the SAS code as is, instead of adapting the code as python practices (for example, to get the last day of the month the code goes to the first day of the next month, but first it check it December to go to the next year, and then subtracts a day, instead of using relativedelta).