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The vibe coder’s career path is doomed

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Let me get one thing out of the way immediately: LLMs are helpful. This isn't about whether LLMs can write code. They can. It's about why vibe coding might be the worst career investment you'll make. I started noticing this shift when developer conversations changed completely. Now it's all about getting Claude to write code for you. Or the holy grail: getting AI to do everything without your intervention. Until recently, I'd been mostly ignoring the hype. I'd read headlines, occasionally ask Claude or ChatGPT to help me debug something, but not much else. Time to learn vibe coding! A Telegram bot. It's a greenfield project. Some dashboards with real-time updates. Nothing too complex but not trivial either. Just a standard REST API with a React frontend. I set up the full AI coding workflow: Claude, Playwright and Postgres MCPs, multiple agents working on different branches and comprehensive documentation files. Then I started vibe coding. Claude was updating schemas, writing endpoints

Let me get one thing out of the way immediately: LLMs are helpful. This isn't about whether LLMs can write code. They can. It's about why vibe coding might be the worst career investment you'll make. I started noticing this shift when developer conversations changed completely. Now it's all about getting Claude to write code for you. Or the holy grail: getting AI to do everything without your intervention. Until recently, I'd been mostly ignoring the hype. I'd read headlines, occasionally ask Claude or ChatGPT to help me debug something, but not much else. Time to learn vibe coding! “What…

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