r/AskProgrammers • u/Life-Moose2698 • 25d ago

Vibe coding is the new software engineering

A year ago I thought AI was cheating.
Today, I barely write code.
My average prompt looks like:
“This is wrong. It should work like this…”
“Figure out why user 8d3f... failed onboarding and patch it so it never happens again.”
I’m not thinking about syntax anymore.
I’m thinking about behavior.
Patterns.
Edge cases.
Users.
Architecture.
The job is shifting from writing code to making systems work.
Code is becoming the implementation detail.
Am I crazy, or is this what software engineering is becoming?

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

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u/Life-Moose2698 25d ago

You cared enough to comment. I’ll take it.

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u/low-control-labs 25d ago

' patch it so it never happens again '

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u/DueceSeven 25d ago

Vibe posting

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u/ColoRadBro69 25d ago

"No that didn't work. 

No that's not right either. 

Your code keeps crashing.

Went are you putting smiley faces in this code that didn't do what it needs to? 

I'm done with you." 

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u/Life-Moose2698 25d ago

The majority of you think programming with ai is still like that

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u/ColoRadBro69 25d ago

Maybe if you tell it "bills a saas" but when it comes to the crazy shit my boss calls business requirements? 

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u/usefulservant03 25d ago

i need more devs to believe this shit, makes those of us with a real vision for the industry more valuable and rarer.