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Big Wows Coming Up

Big Wows Coming Up
AI bros hyping up the next revolutionary app built by prompt engineers who discovered that ChatGPT can write a todo list in React. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still waiting for literally any AI-generated app that solves an actual problem instead of being a glorified API wrapper with a gradient background. But sure, tell me again how your AI-powered note-taking app that hallucinates half your meeting notes is going to disrupt the entire SaaS industry. The field is indeed full of flowers and possibilities, none of which include working production code.

Lines

Lines
Bragging about 10k lines of code per day is like bragging about eating 47 hot dogs in one sitting. Sure, it's technically impressive, but everyone knows you're going to regret it later. When 35% of those lines are tests, you're really just admitting you write 6,500 lines of actual code without anyone checking if it works first. No code review, no pair programming, just raw unfiltered chaos being committed straight to main. The real question isn't about regression bugs—it's about when the entire codebase achieves sentience and decides to quit.

I'm In Danger!

I'm In Danger!
Someone bought an O'Reilly book called "Vibe Coding: I'm a Developer Now" featuring Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons looking blissfully unaware at his MacBook. This is what happens when you skip the fundamentals and go straight to copying Stack Overflow answers without understanding what they do. The book doesn't exist, obviously. But if it did, Chapter 1 would be "Just Add More Console.Logs Until Something Works" and Chapter 2 would be "Why Reading Error Messages Is Optional." The author bio would just say "Has 47 browser tabs open at all times." Ralph's expression perfectly captures that moment when your code somehow works in production but you have absolutely no idea why. You're not debugging anymore, you're just vibing. And when it breaks? Well, that's future you's problem.

Vibe Coding Is A Facade

Vibe Coding Is A Facade
You know those "vibe coders" on social media? The ones with the aesthetic setup, lo-fi beats, and perfect lighting who make coding look like a zen meditation session? Yeah, turns out they're just holding a gun to their own foot the entire time. The reality? Most of us are that Olympic shooter—focused, stressed, one wrong move away from disaster, and definitely not vibing. We're in survival mode, trying to hit the target before production breaks or the deadline murders us first. The "vibe coding" aesthetic is just really good marketing for what's actually controlled chaos with better music.

Garbage Is Garbage

Garbage Is Garbage
The garbage collector doesn't discriminate—whether your code is written by someone who names variables "x1" and "x2" or a developer who thinks they're writing poetry with their function names, it all gets cleaned up the same way. Memory leaks don't care about your vibes. This hits different because "vibe coders" are out here writing code based on aesthetics and feelings, probably spending 20 minutes deciding between map vs forEach based on which one "feels right." Meanwhile, the garbage collector is just doing its job, treating their beautifully crafted objects the same as any other unreferenced heap allocation. No bonus points for code that sparks joy. At the end of the day, once that reference count hits zero or the mark-and-sweep algorithm runs, your elegant singleton pattern and someone's nested ternary nightmare get the same treatment: straight to the memory dump.

Vibe Coding

Vibe Coding
So apparently the secret to "vibe coding" is just... describing what you want in plain English to an AI and letting it do the work? Meanwhile, product managers have been sitting in their ergonomic chairs for a DECADE doing exactly that and getting paid handsomely for it. They've been living in 2025 while the rest of us were debugging segmentation faults at 2 AM. The absolute AUDACITY of tech bros discovering that product managers have been the original prompt engineers this whole time is sending me. Next thing you know, they'll discover that writing clear requirements actually helps build better software. Revolutionary!

The Real SDLC

The Real SDLC
The circle of life, but make it tech. Strong men build C, which gives us the good times of memory management and segfaults. Those good times spawn Python, which spawns AI hype, which spawns "vibe coding" (presumably where you just ask ChatGPT to do everything). Vibe coding produces weak men who can't center a div without an AI assistant. Weak men bring bad times—production outages, npm install taking 47 minutes, that sort of thing. Bad times forge strong men again, and the cycle continues. It's the tech industry's version of that ancient philosophical cycle, except instead of empires rising and falling, it's programming languages and developer competence. We went from manually allocating memory to asking an LLM "how do I reverse a string" and somehow both eras think they're the pinnacle of engineering.

Vibe Coder Life

Vibe Coder Life
You know someone's treating their codebase like a personal diary when every commit message looks like "🔥🚀💥❌✅". Instead of writing descriptive variable names or meaningful comments, they're out here communicating exclusively through hieroglyphics. Is that fire emoji because the code is hot garbage that needs to be deleted, or because it's performing well? Is the rocket a deployment or just wishful thinking? The checkmark could mean tests are passing or just vibes-based approval. The real kicker is trying to debug their code when the only documentation is "fixed the thing 💯" from 6 months ago. Good luck figuring out what handleStuff() does when the only comment above it is "🎯🔥". Pro tip: emojis don't show up in stack traces, and your future self will absolutely hate you during that 2 AM production incident.

Are The Vibe Coders Ok

Are The Vibe Coders Ok
So someone just asked Cursor AI to translate their entire codebase into English "so people that don't know coding languages can understand the functionality and approaches being taken." And they're dead serious about it. Brother wants a bidirectional Rosetta Stone for code. "Currently we speak to the agent and it translates our words into code" – yeah, that's called programming. But now they want the reverse? So non-technical stakeholders can... read your spaghetti code as spaghetti English? The "TODAY, WE COOK!" Breaking Bad GIF is sending me because yes, this is exactly the kind of unhinged energy we've reached with AI coding assistants. We've gone from "learn to code" to "please translate my code back to English because I forgot what I asked the AI to write." Next up: asking ChatGPT to attend your stand-ups for you.

When You Know Your Teammate Is Vibe Coding But He's Hiding It Well

When You Know Your Teammate Is Vibe Coding But He's Hiding It Well
You know that look. The one where you're watching your coworker absolutely demolish a feature implementation while listening to lo-fi beats, completely in the zone, and somehow they're acting like it's just another Tuesday. Meanwhile you're over here wrestling with a merge conflict for the third hour straight. The real skill isn't the coding—it's maintaining that poker face during standup when the PM asks how it's going and they casually say "making progress" while secretly having already refactored half the codebase and fixed six bugs nobody knew existed. Respect the craft. Respect the silence.

Hide Code

Hide Code
That moment when you're pair programming and your teammate is absolutely crushing it—clean logic, elegant solutions, the works. But then you glance at their screen and realize they've got their code minimized, collapsed, or straight-up hidden behind another window. Like, dude, I KNOW you're cooking something beautiful over there, why are you protecting it like it's the nuclear launch codes? Either you're writing the next Linux kernel or you've got variable names like fart_counter and yeet() . The suspicion is real.

Modern Devs Be Like

Modern Devs Be Like
The accuracy is devastating. Modern developers have basically turned into professional copy-paste artists who panic the moment their WiFi drops. "Vibe coding" and "jr dev" are having the time of their lives in the shallow end, while "reading doc" is drowning in the background because nobody actually reads documentation anymore—why would you when Stack Overflow exists? But the real kicker? "Debugging without internet" is literally at the bottom of the ocean, dead and forgotten. Because let's be honest, trying to fix bugs without Google is like trying to perform surgery blindfolded. No Stack Overflow? No ChatGPT? No frantically searching "why is my code broken"? You might as well be coding in the Stone Age. The evolution is complete: we went from reading manuals to Googling everything to now just asking AI to write our code. Documentation? That's boomer energy. Debugging offline? That's a skill your ancestors had.