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.

[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.