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.
I hope for you that you're looking into leaving that company
I am trying to. Good jobs are hard to come by where I'm at and I don't have easy access to the EU job market, unfortunately.
Nice to see that I'm not alone on this earth that still enjoy and does manual coding
Passion for software engineering, and computer science in general, is why I went and got a degree after all. I don't want that part of me to die off due to the industry shifting gears this much. I've regressed a lot particularly because of AI, so I'm relearning a ton of stuff right now and it's as fun as it always was! And frustrating but in a good way :D
I hear you, I wish you good luck. It took me almost 2 year to finally find a job in an EU country that allowed to me to relocate.
As for the personal projects I agree with you, a couple days ago I created a new feature from scratch without AI or internet beyond searching docs. And I completely forgotten how good it feeled to be the one creating something.
I would be out of my depth here as a unemployed student rn but I too recently returned to coding manually, specifically with some pico-8 game development and man is it fun to code again. I kinda lost passion for a while due to just treating as a career thing that i just kinda have to do and stuff ig and it's been just something I dread doing.
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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?