Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
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Re: Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
#2> Through field observations (N=13) and qualitative surveys (N=99)...
Not a statistically significant sample size.
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#3> Through field observations (N=13) and qualitative surveys (N=99)... Not a statistically significant sample size.
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#4The title is doing a lot of work here. What resonated with me is the shift from “writing code” to “steering systems” rather than the hype framing. Senior devs already spend more time constraining, reviewing, and shaping outcomes than typing syntax. AI just makes that explicit. The real skill gap isn’t prompt cleverness, it’s knowing when the agent is confidently wrong and how to fence it in with tests, architecture, and invariants. That part doesn’t scale magically.
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#5> Most Recent Task for Survey
> Number of Survey Respondents
> Building apps 53
> Testing 1
I think this sums up everybody complaints about AI generated code. Don't ask me to be the one to review work you didn't even check.
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#6> Most Recent Task for Survey > Number of Survey Respondents > Building apps 53 > Testing 1 I think this sums up everybody complaints about AI generated code. Don't ask me to be the one to review work you didn't even check.
Yea. Nobody wants to be a full-time code reviewer.
Re: Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
#7> Through field observations (N=13) and qualitative surveys (N=99)... Not a statistically significant sample size.
Same thoughts exactly.
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#8I like to think of it as "maintaining fertile soil"
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#9You know what. After seeing all these articles about AI/LLM for these past 4 years, about how they are going to replace me as software developers and about how I am not productive enough without using 5 agents and being a project manager.
I. Don't. Care.
I don't even care about those debates outside. Debates about do LLM work and replace programmers? Say they do, ok so what?
I simply have too much fun programming. I am just a mere fullstack business line programmer, generic random replaceable dude, you can find me dime a dozen.
I do use LLM as Stack Overflow/docs replacement, but I always code by hand all my code.
If you want to replace me, replace me. I'll go to companies that need me. If there are no companies that need my skill, fine, then I'll just do this as a hobby, and probably flip burgers outside to make a living.
I don't care about your LLM, I don't care about your agent, I probably don't even care about the job prospects for that matter if I have to be forced to use tools that I don't like and to use workflows I don't like. You can go ahead find others who are willing to do it for you.
As for me, I simply have too much fun programming. Now if you excuse me, I need to go have fun.
Re: Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
#10> Most Recent Task for Survey > Number of Survey Respondents > Building apps 53 > Testing 1 I think this sums up everybody complaints about AI generated code. Don't ask me to be the one to review work you didn't even check.
Yea. Nobody wants to be a full-time code reviewer.
Hi it's me, the guy who wants to be a full-time code reviewer.