Vibe Coding !! does it worth the hype ?

I have been working in software engineering industry for almost 18 years, so you can imagine how was it back then.

We used to read through documentation of .net 1.0 libraries back then , it was almost 6 DVDs (You can search what is a DVD ? online ), and we start searching for a library for example to create http request, DVD follows another one , the libraries were ordered back then alphabetically , so you find your library in a "fast manner" .

If you are a Gen-Z engineer, you might find as if i am talking from another planet, but that was the case 18 years ago.

Then Stack overflow became popular, so having a working snippet of code written, people commenting about , enhancing it in the comments section , was a break-through, Finally we could have 3-4 lines of code , written in a 90% clean way, so we can call that Http request or may be read an excel file , or any of the other popular issues back-then.

Now a days , 2025 , where every week a new model of AI is out , trained on Billions of parameters , that very fast paced race between companies , even countries to win the AI race, and after me being an old guy somehow , who is managing a team , where writing code became a luxury i don't have time to do it, yet its the only thing that makes me feel alive, and reminds me why i chose this career 21 years ago when i chose my college. I wasn't interested to try Vibe coding , or using ai in coding , for me its something i really hate , to have that model generating some texts , we wrote years ago , and doing the only job i loved to do.

Then, i found a use case where i really wanted to write code to implement it, i opened visual studio , i know before hand what i want to really implement , its all drawn in my mind. I found a small chat window in Visual studio, with Claude 3.5

I just told him to create me a pipeline pattern , which i really know what i need it to do , it created me 4 files , i know the folder structure i want to implement for the project , so i started creating the files , modifying some stuff , then i finished.

I started extending the pattern a bit by bit . but there is no single line i don't know how it works , and to be frank , there were a lot of mistakes in the generated code , that i needed to fix in my project , while creating file by file.

after a while , i found that boom in 4 hours , i finished a poc , that actually used to take from me at-least 12-16 hours.

But , would this be the case for Junior engineer ? would generating code , using it , make the full project works in 3-4 hours , be something achievable by non-experienced engineers ?

Would it harm them ? At the end learning stuff the hard way , makes you stronger , what if they learned it the easy way ? would they have real experience ?

Would they be able to even start their careers off ? will companies hire ? or they will just rely on seniors / leads , only ? will we see a single CTO companies ? where we just have a new title which is AI CTO , who can implement all the stuff using agents ?

all these questions are brought up to my mind since then , surely it expedited what i want to build in tragic way. but still remains the questions above not answered , and i believe we will not find an answer now , may be after couple of years , when people start not hiring juniors , not teaching them , relying more on ai , we will see the consequences our selves.

I believe we are not there yet , but all these questions deserves a deep thought.

Cheers ;)