My boss vibe coded this over the weekend and now it’s my problem is going to be its own genre of developer complaints in the coming years.

[carnage4life@mas.to]

My boss vibe coded this over the weekend and now it’s my problem is going to be its own genre of developer complaints in the coming years.

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@carnage4life developers going to be begging for the ol days of pseudo-code with multiple black boxes with missing or conflicting logic

[raineer@frontrange.co]

@carnage4life I had the same experience earlier this month

My boss essentially vibe coded their own version of jira with some customizations to replace assigning a proper PM to a project we’re launching

We had to reassign a dev for several days to even figure out how to pry the thing off of replit and stand it up in our own aws vpc.

It was never architected for cloud. It’s exactly the same as the 30-something docker mini-apps I built at home.

The difference is I would never take them to work and be like “this is part of our infra now!”

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

@carnage4life

My previous comment still stands

https://hachyderm.io/@shafik/116004009707074140

[pgor@mastodon.social]

@carnage4life Not really a new problem. Had a boss in 1999 who rewrote the core of our Java code “over the weekend” and we suffered through it for a while. He almost threw a fit when I eventually refactored it so we weren’t shipping the entire codebase as the client applet.

And it gave the CTO (one of those “CTO only bc they were the early-joiner”) confidence to drop a similar rearchitecture without consulting the team.

Maybe this is why I am not interested in vibe coding…

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@raineer and yet it is still probably an improvement over Jira...

[heathborders@hachyderm.io]

@carnage4life hot take from someone that loves well-designed, working code: answering product questions is where the value is. I used to think that product stuff was easy and low-value in my younger days, too, so no blame on the OP.

Engineers are expensive, and making engineers build the wrong thing is expensive.

[jrcs3@techhub.social]

@carnage4life I used to feast on user developed Access apps.

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

@carnage4life

Poorly designed products can limp along a long time before requiring total replacement.

The problem is that it works, you spend all your time putting out fires instead of building new features and innovating.

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[erikcats@dice.camp]

@carnage4life i can't program but this doesn't give me the confidence I can do it via AI either lol

[zhaph@fosstodon.org]

@carnage4life
We recently had a designer deliver a heavily animated site they'd vibe coded for major internal stakeholder: the problem? Somehow it didn't work on any browser on any of the PCs in the office (and the stakeholder was presenting it on a PC at a global town hall in a couple of days)...

None of our front-end Devs could work out what Cursor had done, and so ended up rewriting it from scratch.

[hc@mastodon.africa]

@carnage4life In that situation I would use something like BMAD to guide an LLM to generate a complete test suite, derive requirements, distill them, confirm any unclear ones, and then guide the LLM to reimplement it.