> I asked friends who are enthusiastic vibe coders and they basically said "your standards are too high".
Sure, vibe coders by definition can't have any standards for the code they're generating because by definition they never look at it.
> Is the model for success here that you just say "I don't care about code quality because I don't have to maintain it because I will use LLMs for that too?"
Vibe coding may work for some purposes, but if it were currently a successful strategy in all cases, or even narrowly for improving AI, Google AI or DeepSeek or somebody would be improving their product far faster than mere humans could, by virtue of having more budget for GPUs and TPUs than you do, and more advanced AI models, too. If and when this happens you should not expect to find out by your job getting easier; rather, you'll be watching the news and extremely unexpected things will be happening. You won't find out that they were caused by AI until later, if ever.
Sure, vibe coders by definition can't have any standards for the code they're generating because by definition they never look at it.
> Is the model for success here that you just say "I don't care about code quality because I don't have to maintain it because I will use LLMs for that too?"
Vibe coding may work for some purposes, but if it were currently a successful strategy in all cases, or even narrowly for improving AI, Google AI or DeepSeek or somebody would be improving their product far faster than mere humans could, by virtue of having more budget for GPUs and TPUs than you do, and more advanced AI models, too. If and when this happens you should not expect to find out by your job getting easier; rather, you'll be watching the news and extremely unexpected things will be happening. You won't find out that they were caused by AI until later, if ever.