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by phkahler 329 days ago
>> There was never career path for a vibe coder. Vibe coder won’t be a thing in a year. There’ll be a new, meaningless term though.

Last year it was "prompt engineer", or was that 2 years ago already. Things move fast on the frontier...
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AnotherGoodName 329 days ago
Even vibe coding was coined as term applying to extremely experienced engineers (the guy who coined the term) using llms to rapidly experiment with refactoring and prototyping as if doing pair programming. The negative connotations we now have are an interesting semantic shift.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

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makestuff 329 days ago
I completely forgot about prompt engineers. I remember now startups offering insane salaries to them a few years ago. IMO the next iteration will be planning engineers since the new thing seems to be the plan/execution split of these vibe coding tools.
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__MatrixMan__ 329 days ago
Isn't a planning engineer just an engineer?
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