Vibe coded is not production
Key points
- "Now we are losing that skill."
- "The responsibility is still with me as a consultant."
- "If I can't even find issues in the code that it is suggesting, then what am I bringing to the table?"
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Remember the time before smartphones, before mobile phones? We used to remember our cousins' landline numbers. Before smartphones, Google Maps and navigation, we used to be able to drive to a friend or a family 30, 40 kilometres away without looking at the map and remember the ways as well.
Now we are losing that skill. Is this the beginning of something similar, when we are doing so much vibe coding? We are doing so much of: I'll just say it and start using the output from the agent. Maybe something to be mindful of.
Because at the end, the responsibility is still with me as a consultant. The AI can hallucinate. The AI can bring some wrong data, some wrong results. But if I can't even find issues in the code that it is suggesting, then what am I bringing to the table? So we will need to continuously sharpen the skill and be there.
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