[risyachka]

>> Seems like programmers are terrified

Idk why terrified, vibe coding is nice but everyone who developed something bigger than a toy knows that code is 5% of the task and never was a bottleneck. Its not like faang employees write code all day long, or even half day.

Ah and you need to make sure it doesn’t nuke your db or send weird email to your users because someone prompt-engineered it badly.

[d_burfoot]

> why terrified

I'm terrified some colleague is going to vibe-code a product and use it to get promoted, then move to another team and dump the project on me to maintain.

[risyachka]

You can either vibe-code or have sharp skills. Can’t have both.

In that particular situation you will have easier time switching a job(that usually pays more than promotion) than your colleague.

[mixedump]

Exactly.

I feel people/hypers keep rumbling about many things and way too often seem they have no real life experience.

The biggest problem I’ve seen over 20 years long career is people and the games they play (on different levels of leadership and management within an org) and their inability to agree to and then verbalise what on Earth they want. No matter is it a greenfield or some digital transformation project, they a plagued by fear and self-interest (of various kind).

And even if/when they identify a problem (e.g. games players) it becomes a risky cutting the cord since the one needs to identify who to rely on to clean the mess and their confidence caves in (often) while resolving to “let’s layoff x number of ‘leaf’ employees” is safe scared-with-no-vision leader move and it looks good on the stock market.

Software engineers (generally) kept delivering despite all that for years across the board (generally). And, generally, kept their values and principles and that bothers this managerial class a lot it seems and they (in a way) can’t wait to stop paying “those nerds” big salaries and that’s why those often low values and unprincipled people can’t wait to see our backs and are getting hyped about this “AI will replace SD/SE” mantra.

All this above is obviously generally speaking but yeah we people tend way to often to misplace our focus and solve lesser priority problems, and this “ai replacing engineers” is one of them to a good degree.

And for the majority of software developers there is nothing to worry about. The sheer keep-knowledge-up-to-date demand this industry put on us primed us to be by far the most able professional group to jump into a career change in no time.

Which other group in huge numbers can just sit down and learn and work for 10 hours a day 7 days a week and not complain or get emotionally disturbed (too much) and get the thing but us.

So in the worst case scenario we will be fine, others should be scared if we in numbers pick their industry to move into.