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.
Sol is pretty fast from my experience, but still does the same thing that everything before it did: generate plausible code that I need to correct (and often rewrite) afterwards.
I haven’t used Astra yet, but I don’t really expect it to change that. Once it becomes available at work, I’ll give it a shot of course, but my expectations aren’t very high.
Edit: turns out I have Astra at work. It meets my expectations. I’ve had to rewrite a bunch of test code it generated and point it to the docs for a library to show it that some methods were deprecated and soon to be removed.