Comment by testfrequency

The recent jokes about “everyone is an engineer” now just feels unprovable, where as before it felt like you could still counter that argument by asking to see someone’s code.

Now everyone has examples of code they’ve “written”, but nobody can explain what it does. Unless of course, their readme.md was also completely generated.

I agree with some of the people here that vibe engineering has completely deflated my long successful career as a SWE, and it’s pushed me mentally into non-tech roles to feel motivated.