With vibe-coding, people often complain that code quality suffers, that the code isn't as smart as it would be if a human wrote it. This especially comes from people or companies who've at least warmed up to the idea of integrating AI into their workflows. So not from AI haters.
Honestly, I find this argument pretty damn hypocritical.
Back in my day, when we were still writing every line by hand, there were also massive quality losses in the code, but back then it came from something else: from the impatience and cluelessness of company leadership.
Feature development was (and still is) crammed into tight Scrum processes, under the micro-management of some Scrum Master clowns who often had no clue about coding, but really made an effort to lick their leaderships' boots. Stuff was constantly promised 'up top' that we 'down below' could only deliver on schedule by shipping dirty code with massive technical debt. Short-term thinking was the norm. The main thing was that the feature (which in 90% of cases was useless or even harmful to the app) absolutely had to get out before the next board meeting.
And after years of us developers complaining that we were just piling up technical debt and never getting time to fix it, a CTO even had the nerve to say to our faces: 'Listen guys, in this business it's not about hitting the track with the most polished car, but about reaching the finish line first with the crappiest jalopy.'
So when the same people, with the same short-term mindset, come at me now with 'AI code is bad,' I just laugh in their faces and know they've never vibe-coded a larger project. Because with vibe-coding, I'm actually in control of making sure architectural principles and other standards are followed, without some bullshit suit jumping in and saying 'Nah, we'll do that later. Just ship it first.' And without some dumb 'Scrum Master' who took a few weeks of expensive paid courses for his job title trying to orchestrate me.
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