[holtkam2]

Trust me, these “vibe coding” tools don’t speed up productivity much in the real world. At the end of the day these systems need to be maintained by humans and humans are the ones held accountable when stuff breaks. That means humans need to understand how the systems (code, infrastructure, etc) work. You can automate the code, even some decisionmaking about how the program should be organized, but you can’t automate the process of having a human develop their mental model of how & why the system works. That was always the bottleneck and still is to this day.

When everyone else has given up on software dev as a career path, you’ll be one of the few who the CEO can call upon to explain why X or Y broke, and fix it. That will make you insanely valuable.

[rvz]

I'm scrolling through lots of comments here over many of them being entirely dependent on chatbots to vibe code and even some here are unable to write a function by hand anymore, which is concerning.

Perhaps your comment is the only one so far that is talking sense of the true side effect of over-reliance on these vibe coding tools and the reality is the cost of maintainance.