Comment by anonEbWZRLG
7 days ago
Thank you for writing this, Simon. I'm using an anonymous account not tied to my main one, so if the mods want to delete it, go ahead, but I really need to rant. My company has been taking this same approach for the past two months. While the rest of the world is warning about the effects of vibe coding and AI-slop, we're fully embracing it, calling it "working smart" and "automate all things!"
It's utterly ridiculous. It feels like the PMs and higher-ups have no idea how much tech debt we're creating right now. For the past few weeks, going to work has felt like going back to school, everyone's showing off their "homework", and whoever has the coolest vibecoded instructions.md or pipeline gets promoted.
I'm slowly burning out, and I was one of the people who actually liked the technology behind all this.
I can totally relate, very similar situation here.
I am currently kind of an anti-AI black sheep in engineering department because I refuse to fully embrace the exponentials and give in to the vibes.
I avoid burnout by simply switching off my brain from all this noise about vibe coding - i have thought hard and long, i know the way this is being implemented is wrong, i know they will create problems for themselves down the road (they already have, the signs are already there), i will be here to dig them out when the time comes.
So far I don't see anyone shipping faster or better with AI than I can manually, so I'm good.
It's interesting to see the differences in industry adoption. My company just recently made Copilot an official tool for use. We're in a safety-oriented industry that moves more slowly. I do use it, but mostly just to tighten up existing code or get ideas for a refactor.
Meanwhile, I have a client project where my counterpart is definitely senior to me and excitedly shares how AI is helping them solve novel problems each week!
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