“No Duh,” say senior developers everywhere.
The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.
Wait, it was hyped? Not just ridiculed?
A VP and his taking head sycophants at my work has not shut up about it. They went through some trouble to automatically measure employee use of the AI and made it a performance measure. So now we have it generate code so we don’t get fired and mostly throw it away.
Oh, I did not know hell was hiring.