Vibecoding general - How to become the a 10x engineer you always knew you were despite being absolutely inept in every imaginable manner

[ADHD Mate]

The agents are designed to produce unreadable code so that you're locked into their platform. It produces black boxes of nonsense unless you give it specific architectural instructions, and even then it will find every excuse to ignore directives and build things in the most convoluted and unmaintainable way possible.

They aren't designed to do it, it's just what happens when you average everything into slop.

I don't understand why this is so complicated for what's supposed to be one of the most powerful models on the market.

They don't reason. It's just code rewriting and some if/else sprinkled on top for most common tasks.
It pretty much just transforms what you wrote into probabilistic outcome of code someone else wrote.
Like snippet engine that randomly picks code snippets from stack overflow.

Vibecoding is great if you tell it more than just “make gaem pls” and actually know how your program should be structured but just don’t want to mess with getting the syntax right. It’s both impressive and horrifying knowing I could now take a few hours to shit out programs that once took me a week to make, and the AI version would be better.

Vibecoding is great when you are precise. Interesting. Maybe we should come up with some languages that could be more precise to describe our programs in.

 

[Two Dollars]

Vibecoding is great when you are precise. Interesting. Maybe we should come up with some languages that could be more precise to describe our programs in.

We have a language for that, it’s called “non-ESL English”.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Dim x as integer

 

[ADHD Mate]

We have a language for that, it’s called “non-ESL English”.

Since AI is trained using mainly scrapped internet. "ESL English" might be more to it's liking.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

I feel like no one cares about maintainability anymore. We had a lead engineer leave at work and I assigned to be the lead on the project. He loved Claude, and it shows.

Most people don't care. The vast majority of devs just want to get the pay cheque and do as little as possible.
I can get Claude and OpenCode to do all the boring stuff (which is all of it these days). My job is building uninspired web applications that will be thrown away in less than a decade.
Every job is some of this stuff, and if you avoid it, they actively lie about what you will be doing in the job.

I've basically given up after my boss wouldn't fire a dude who cannot code. At my last contract position, I heard second-hand from a guy that I met up with 2 years later who used to work with me on that team. that the attitude in the team was "Get SchizoDaemon" to do it. This is how the vast number of people operate, because the organisations are run like adult day care, and you cannot get anyone to do anything. However, if you actually point out someone's retardation, you end up having a meeting with a superior about your attitude.