Post by @becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt

2026-03-24 16:17 UTC

@AmyZenunim I'm getting whiffs of that coming down the pipe at [redacted] and am currently hoping to high hell that the bubble goes bang before that happens... I've had to explain to my boss that one of the reasons I'm so far above my "experience bracket" in terms of programming skill is because I don't think in "natural language," so prompting the robot slows me down, and that's on top of all the other bullshit. (And I do actually have documented disabilities with regards to putting thoughts into natural language, so I suspect the ADA could have some teeth if they try to force the issue...)

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@becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt 2026-03-24 18:07

@AmyZenunim ...and shortly after I made that reply, one of my coworkers PRed a giant mass of vibecode. Thankfully it's almost entirely DTOs in a brand new package, so it couldn't mangle things that badly, but it's clear from the comments and (lack of) naming "sense" that he just let the "AI" run wild without really understanding anything it was doing. Certainly doesn't help that his programming fundamentals were somewhat lacking to begin with, though. (I noticed him starting to lean on it a while back and warned him it was a bad idea. Looks like he hasn't listened...) (I can also Just Tell that it wasn't him who wrote most of it. It's not written in his usual style at all. There was no real thought process, only pulling the handle on the fruit machine and committing the result if it looked like it got things closer to working. And yes, I can tell that just from the code. It's soulless, the thought patterns I can usually see just aren't there)

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