It's honestly kind of entertaining to read the posts on there where folks are talking about Cursor messing up their codebase and every comment is telling them to learn coding basics and start using git.
It will be really interesting how "vibe coding" will cause the field to evolve. My gut says that right now it's just non-technical folks that do it and programmer that do it for fun. But IMO this will creep into the industry and will eventually result in an even bigger junior/senior gap.
“Will creep” is the wrong tense: we’re doing it now. At $bigco we’ve rolled out GH Copilot and an AWS sandbox with Sonnet3.7 et al to the whole engineering org (which is big). We already have a 2025 KPI around copilot use by devs, human review required for generated code commits (by policy) for now. Just this week we started rolling out automated copilot PR reviews for human code, it’s already packaged in github action runners. PMs are already using genai for fleshing out epics and features and the architecture org has a demo next week of a genai diagramming tool.
If this tech saves four cents net/net it doesn’t matter how many engineers go away. It’s short sighted for sure, nobody cares if we don’t have junior devs in five years as long as we decrease headcount.
Senior leadership was on the fence a bit until they came back from re:invent, AWS must have pushed hard in those closed door meetings. They came home positively GIDDY
It will be really interesting how "vibe coding" will cause the field to evolve. My gut says that right now it's just non-technical folks that do it and programmer that do it for fun. But IMO this will creep into the industry and will eventually result in an even bigger junior/senior gap.