After AI Led to Layoffs, Coders Are Being Hired to Fix 'vibe-Coded' Screwups
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It has nothing to do with AI layoffs. If anything it looks like vibe coding gave some power to the sales and product people to prototype quickly.
This article is ripe to be shared by AI naysayers verbatim as a quick gotcha.
What we got was AI producing slop on greenfield projects which we have to debug and maintain.