The Vibe Coding Era: Why AI Won’t Replace Software Engineers

I built an inventory management system and it took me a year to build.

as a designer , a client did a design using ai, but it had a lot of flaws namely accuracy of dimensions. i can't feel comfortable to release a design that doesn't have the robust check system a person would.

Great video 👍👍👍👍👍

It’s crazy because I have two separate ai agents that cross check each other to make sure everything is working right. Right before I got into this I was taking a course learning SQL and Python. This wave is so serious 😭😭 as long as you remember that you’re driving still so if it doesn’t work out it’s due to your inability to communicate with the ai. Also I don’t share a single line of code without ensuring that it does what I need it to do, doesn’t interfere with anything previously built or that will be built. When building things you need to be very articulate when it comes to your wording to make sure the proper guard rails and constraints are in place and that proper instructions and directions are given, whether or not you can even implement the changes how you requested them with your current setup and considering what’s supported across devices. Never send a line of code to a builder without cross checking first if you want to avoid headaches and accidental deletion or manipulation of features you previously setup because that can also happen if you’re not careful or not paying attention while sending new prompts or new lines of code

3:04 “excellent question” It’s over my tech bros

I'm liking this video not just because it's informative and researched, but primarily because it's not click bait bs that only wastes my time like 90% of youtube videos on AI

DANGEROUS - Could be heaps of flaws undetected and vulnerable

The amount of vulnerable code that’s about to be generated is going to be insane. And as a security engineer I thank you all for the continued employment.

what is a documentary without the marimba sound 😂😂😂😂 Subscribers of Dan the Good work know what I am talking about

As a CS student, I am overwhelmed

Wooo! Cynthia is the best, keep on making fun stuff 👏

Can anyone tell me why the head of Google Cloud AI is working on an HTML file? 🤔

I used to be afraid of AI taking my job, but the stuff I’ve been able to build in the past few months blows away everything I’ve ever done. I started a game 10 years ago that I gave up on. I handed the code off to openclaw on Friday. It’s nearly the finished game I imagined on Monday. It’s terrifying and exciting at the same time.

yes useful when your problem statement is extremely straight forward.

Most of the industry has no idea what an LLM is. They see it as a magic black box. They ignore the limitations of the "very sophisticated next word prediction algorithm", and they do it because the competitor is doing it, and they're afraid of being left behind. The algorithms have become better and better with the "reasoning" techniques, but they're basically very close to their limit by now. There's no next step in this plan and, as good as today's LLMs are, AGI is still a distant dream that some CEOs are promising without the real technical means to deliver - of course. LLMs have revolutionized the way we write software; whether it was for the better or the worse, remains to be seen.

I use Claude Code daily as a developer with 20+ years of coding experience. It's a great time saving tool. Experience allows me to ask all of the right questions, and understand the reply questions. I have no idea how someone with no experience would do this. At least for now, senior developers are safe, but for how long I'm not sure.

6:38 that keyboard 🤩

Yeah now ask anyone with no Software Engineering experience at all about software architecture, and what production code looks like. Ask them how to design scalable and maintainable systems. Ask them the tradeoffs in their discissions. Better yet, ask them to explain anything about their app in depth. A lot of non Software Engineers think that coding is the job, but in reality coding is a small part of the job. We are not 'programmers', our titles are developer and engineer. There is a reason for that. There is a lot beyond coding that goes into being a Software Engineer; software architecture, requirements gathering, understanding the business domain, understanding the applications, and most importantly, developing maintainable and scalable systems with all of these things in mind. Look I am glad coding is more accessible to people who otherwise would have no exposure, but you cannot take anyone who 'vibe coded' an app and put them in a real Software Engineering role; they will absolutely drown. It’s like following a legal template you generated from an LLM. You might produce a document, but that doesn’t make you a lawyer who understands nuance, risk, and how to handle edge cases. LLMs can guide execution, but they don’t replace real world human judgment, experience, and context. This whole idea of 'AI taking jobs' narrative is purely marketing. LLMs aren’t magic. They’re probabilistic systems that generate text based on patterns in data and context. They don’t have true understanding, judgment, or real world accountability. You know, the things you need to actually do a job. They have reasoning like behavior, but it is not human reasoning.

I am one of those business owner who used Gemini to be precise to build a full grade ERP software for my textile business! It took me a month and half! But I feel you gotta have a very good understanding of the architecture of your workflow to design an app!

Software engineers at one point wrote assembly, then C, then object oriented languages, then interpreted languages and scripting, it’s built layers on top of layers of abstraction with each layer making engineers more and more efficient. It still all required engineers to understand the structure and process of writing good software. AI doesn’t change this.