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Boss is "vibe coding" (lemmy.world)

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My boss thinks it's very cute to talk about AI as much as possible, and today asked if I'd heard of "vibe coding". I said yeah, and explained to my coworker that it's where you get a chatbot to write all your code.

My boss has just announced that he's vibe coding. I know the project he's working on. It took us months to put that codebase together, and there are a lot of very complex functions and plugins in that site that we've written to integrate with all the systems our client needs the site to use.

What am I supposed to do here? He's just letting a chatbot go rogue on the codebase. Do I just leave him to it with the full knowledge that it'll fall on me and my colleague to repair all this damage, presumably while being accused of breaking the site in the first place? I need the money from this job so unfortunately leaving isn't an option at this stage.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Assuming he owns the place, not much you can do. Definitely keep your code in version control, or at a bare minimum back it up with an automated script or something.

If he doesn't own the place, going over their head is an option but a bad one for your longevity at the business.

I'd say let em do what they want and revert it if you don't like it. You guys could talk about starting to enforce pull requests as the only mechanism of getting into prod, then your dev team will have a chance to review every line before they go into prod