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.
I’ve switched to Linux on my personal computer a few years back and I was so happy I did. Seeing pillar distributions like Debian open up to the slop is immensely depressing. As you’ve said FOSS is unfortunately not a sanctuary.
OS maintenance, like Debian, is tons of tedious busywork, most of it is quite literally just pulling from upstream packages, making sure there is no conflicts or certain types of labeled bugs, and that it meets the licencing and policy standards. So long as they are checking the code, I could see open-source projects benefiting substantially from LLM usage. The one thing that FOSS projects have is a lack of manpower.