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I don't wanna flame you for it.
This is kinda where I see vibe coding taking off the most: The same phenomenon as using LLMs to summarize and reply to pithy business emails.
Business gets so unbearably businessy, people are using machines to bypass the inherently un-human "professionalism performance" for them.
It might not be work anybody can claim to be proud of, but right now success for the professional-managerial class runs on looking busy and circling back to synergizing the workflow with best practices for optimal returns regarding key performance metrics 🤢 or whatnot.
I don't blame people for it, in a work context. Looking impressive with AI tools is now a survival tactic when working under normies holding the purse strings and investing stupid amounts of money into the bubble. They've forced people to be part of a circular, self-reinforcing imaginary reality they're profiting from.
So, I don't wanna flame you. I just hope you're doing something fundamentally human to keep your soul alive on the side, at least. Something you as a unique human being on this earth can be proud of. <3
Honestly im proud of the problems I'm able to solve today now that I can use AI to do it so quickly.
Even when I stop and manually check all the work the AI has done, it's still much faster and I'm having to rely on my knowledge and experience to do so. When I'm vibe coding I'm relying on that same knowledge and experience to architect the solution rather than deliver it.
Ive seen the other side- the colleagues who all of a sudden think theyre engineers and are unknowingly exposing critical commercial data to our competitors. That side is scary...and gives me hope that my role while changing, is far from dead.
Also I have hobbies - i only work to pay for them. If "the man" wants to pay me to spend tokens...fine by me. I'll be here to clean it up if it all goes wrong.