Vibes Don't Maintain

Re:Vibes Don't Maintain by jokethrowaway on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:28AM (#50485864)

As a developer with 20 years of experience, this post sounds very defensive - if you have a brain, you can vibe solve all these issues you mentioned. Even pre AI you had exactly the same problems if you were using cheap / bad developers, this is not any different.

Your friend already got an application working for his restaurant and he can fix the issues that come his way.

I see my friends do it all the time: non technical but high iq enough they can chat with claude code or grok bot and solve the issues until their product works.

One of my non technical friends started offering web dev services. He makes static websites with claude, charges 1k and everyone is happy. Last week he charged 150 to setup DNS to another vibe coder who made a website but couldn't set up the DNS records. If only they knew they can ask claude to use the browser and operate godaddy interface.

Developers won't disappear - there is the last 10% where you need an expert - but they will greatly diminish in numbers.

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Re:Vibes Don't Maintain by roosterIllusi0n on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:14PM (#50486547)

I expect businesses to make their own POS software and get off fee based services. They can focus on the cheapest payment processor with an api. Then make all the software they want on top of it.

Software engineers need to start businesses and use their skill to make it run better than other businesses. The vapid business people will eventually take the hit because most of those people rely on moats that are going away.

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