What is going on right now?

> Engineers are burning out. Orgs expect their senior engineering staff to be able to review and contribute to “vibe-coded” features that don’t work.

It’s not just engineering folks that are being asked to do more vibe-coding with AI. Designers, product folks, project managers, marketers, content writers are all being asked to vibe code prototypes, marketing websites, internal tools, repros, etc. I’m seeing it first hand at the company I work at and many others. Normal expectations of job responsibilities have been thrown out of the window.

Teams are stretched thin as a result, because every company is thinking that if you’re not sprinting towards AI you’ll be left behind. And the truth is that these folks actually deliver impact through their AI usage.

My wife's seen this at multiple non-tech companies, and it's a disaster every single time. Most (like... 95+% of) folks can't use these things very well, being forced to use them kills morale because they're frustrating as fuck (and managers largely have no idea what they're actually capable of doing productively, so expectations are all over the place and often fantastical) and dealing with the output of co-workers who can't use them well is even more frustrating than the LLMs themselves are. It's sometimes coupled with attempts to realize the increased "efficiency" before it's even proven it exists, by firing significant chunks of staff at the same time as adopting "AI processes", further stressing out remaining employees and ruining ability to actually get things done.

It's trashing whole departments. The come-down from this high (which high is being experienced pretty much only by the C-suite and investors) is gonna be rough.