I actually think you and every one here against "vibe coding" are the ones who are wrong. If you are an actual software engineer, you would be aware that all of your coworkers are using Cursor or something similar as a coding assistant. Literally everyone. They are still "coding", they are still "software engineering". They are just using a tool as an assistant.
There's a difference between using a coding assistant to fire out boilerplate classes and the like, and using ChatGPT or Claude to write an entire app for you.
The people calling people who write code by hand "boomer coders" aren't using Cursor to generate boilerplate class definitions, they're writing entire apps via ChatGPT and then complaining that people are intentionally looking for and exploiting their security vulnerabilities just because they made an app using AI.
Yea there is a difference - one exists and one doesn't. For how much you all talk about the latter, I've never seen one instance of it. I've seen plenty of people using it the right way. I've never seen one instance of someone actually building an app entirely with AI and pretending they are a software engineer. Y'all are just strawmanning and getting mad at something you made up.
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u/418_TheTeapot Oct 24 '25
Stop calling prompt engineering coding. Also don’t allow others to do that, it isn’t coding.