Vibe Coding Won't Replace Me

The existential dread hits different when you realize all those hours grinding through algorithm puzzles were just feeding the beast that'll eventually replace you. Competitive programmers spent years optimizing solutions to the most obscure problems, only to discover they've been unwittingly training their silicon successors. The ultimate plot twist: your LeetCode grind wasn't preparing you for a job interview—it was preparing AI to ace it instead. Talk about creating your own replacement with extra steps.

The circle of life in tech! Designers freaking out when devs use AI to make pretty UIs, while developers glare suspiciously when designers start generating code. It's the digital equivalent of "stay in your lane, bro." After 15 years in the industry, I've seen territorial battles over who gets to use which tools, but this AI turf war is next level. Soon we'll all just be prompt engineers yelling at each other about who wrote the better instruction set.

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The eternal developer's dilemma in flowchart form! If AI-generated code doesn't work, it's a hard "DON'T DO IT." If it works but you have no clue why? Also "DON'T DO IT" (future you will curse present you during debugging). But if it works AND you understand why? "SURE" go ahead! This is basically the modern version of "I found this snippet on StackOverflow" except now we're copying from robots instead of humans. The flowchart perfectly encapsulates that brief moment of temptation when ChatGPT spits out something that runs without errors but feels like forbidden magic. Remember folks: understanding > working code.

The AUDACITY of recommendation algorithms thinking they know me! 😤 While mere mortals click links with reckless abandon, we programmers are out here playing 4D chess with YouTube's AI. Copy link? ✓ Incognito mode? ✓ Digital footprint OBLITERATED! The sheer PARANOIA of thinking "if I click this ONE video about mechanical keyboards, my entire feed will become nothing but clicky-clacky keyboard ASMR until the END OF TIME!" It's not being dramatic when YouTube literally turns one casual click into your entire personality!

That moment when ChatGPT confidently gives you code that looks perfect but introduces five new bugs because it's stuck in 2021 while you're using the bleeding edge framework version. Nothing like the special migraine that comes from AI trying to help but actually making your codebase look like it went through a blender. Stack Overflow veterans would've just called you an idiot and linked to the docs, but at least their solution would've worked.