This whole vibe coding thing doesn’t seem to be working out for companies, however, as generating code via an LLM prompt at breakneck speed can, predictably, lead to less-than-stellar work. Now, in an ironic twist, it seems that, having dispensed with more skilled coders for the cheap effectiveness of a chatbot-aided code monkey, companies are having to hire additional contractors to fix the AI’s screw-ups.
404 Media writes about the rise of an entire new class of coders, dubbed the “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” who can swoop in to fix the problems that AI-generated code creates for companies.
| Oh, thank goodness. Everything y’all have said here tells me that AI cannot be left unsupervised or the hallucinations will make life entirely too interesting. |
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