The problem isn’t “vibe coding” (anyone who has ever managed early career staff will be able to attest that… the bar is REAL fucking low). The problem is a complete lack of testing or any sort of “investment” in caring if production breaks.
A lot of it is general apathy induced by… gestures around. But it very much goes beyond just the obnoxious rise in brain drains over “vibe coding”. Personally speaking, I am THIS fucking close to driving over to my company’s head of IT’s house and burning it down with him in it (For legal purposes, this is a joke) as that entire team continues to think “We’ll just wait until people tell us what is broken” is at all fucking acceptable.
But pretty much any SDLC is going to be built around code review. And code review is how you handle developers of different skill and sanity levels. Whether they are old hats who have been in the basement since before you were born, youngins who can’t stop talking about Rust, or chatbots.
Unfortunately a lot of people are trying to outsource code review to LLMs as well. Also, LLM generated code is more likely to have subtle errors that a human would be very unlikely to make in otherwise mundane code. Errors that are easy to gloss over if you don’t take a magnifying glass to it. My current least favorite thing is LLM generated unit tests that don’t actually test what they say they do.
That is the reality.
The problem isn’t “vibe coding” (anyone who has ever managed early career staff will be able to attest that… the bar is REAL fucking low). The problem is a complete lack of testing or any sort of “investment” in caring if production breaks.
A lot of it is general apathy induced by… gestures around. But it very much goes beyond just the obnoxious rise in brain drains over “vibe coding”. Personally speaking, I am THIS fucking close to driving over to my company’s head of IT’s house and burning it down with him in it (For legal purposes, this is a joke) as that entire team continues to think “We’ll just wait until people tell us what is broken” is at all fucking acceptable.
But pretty much any SDLC is going to be built around code review. And code review is how you handle developers of different skill and sanity levels. Whether they are old hats who have been in the basement since before you were born, youngins who can’t stop talking about Rust, or chatbots.
Unfortunately a lot of people are trying to outsource code review to LLMs as well. Also, LLM generated code is more likely to have subtle errors that a human would be very unlikely to make in otherwise mundane code. Errors that are easy to gloss over if you don’t take a magnifying glass to it. My current least favorite thing is LLM generated unit tests that don’t actually test what they say they do.