At my fully remote job, they are all-in on vibecoding. When I say all-in, I mean ALL THE FUCK IN. I don't know what the team's workflow is but I've resorted to adding to my claude.md instructions along the lines of "implementation is done as a multi-step process: first a subagent implements, then a new fresh subagent does a review, then a third fixes. Finally, use the playwright mcp to click through the UI and verify that everything works as it should". So each ticket or feature passes through this "loop" and the final manual click through catches any glaring issues.
That being said, code quality is likely nonexistent, but I am being very underpaid for all the things they're having me "work" on, so I just don't really care. I am a massive larper on our daily standups and usually just ask claude before them "hey remind me what I worked on yesterday by scanning all my commits and PRs." I genuinely have no idea what I otherwise worked on if it was tickets assigned to me. If I'm tasked with something that I need to describe to claude, then I vaguely know how it implemented it.
I use the idle time between prompts to read, watch tv shows, or do some actual manual programming on personal projects.
Thanks for the heads up but there's no risk for that at my current employer.
I'm technically not even employed because contracts mean nothing apparently: I practically begged them for us to sign it so that I have the legal paper trail, but they just... didn't really care. I realize how this sounds but without getting into the laws of my country: I'm legally in the clear and it's mostly in my favor this way.
And yeah it sucks that it's never actual employment. Idk how it works in the US but you don't get any kind of health insurance if you're only a contractor here, you are considered unemployed in the face of the government. Thankfully I'm young enough that I qualify for young-person health insurance, otherwise I'd have to apply each month to get unemployed insurance.
In the US you don't get any kind of health insurance as a contractor.
You also don't get any kind of health insurance for being young, or for being unemployed.
If you can fill out a ridiculous amount of paperwork, you can get (kind of terrible) health insurance (Medicaid) for being very very poor, but if you're getting paid for contract work you almost certainly don't qualify.
You can buy private health insurance through the ACA market, which is subsidized based on your income. EXCEPT that in about half the states there is a gap where you make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough(!) to qualify for ACA subsidies, in which case the very cheapest ACA plan probably costs about 50% of your income, and also doesn't cover much.
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u/citramonk 19h ago
ready for a new task is crazy, as if you're not going to review, refactor, test it thoroughly and commit?