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425 points sfarshid | 3 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.691s | source
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VincentEvans ◴[24 Aug 25 16:36 UTC] No.45005596[source]▶
There will be a a new kind of job for software engineers, sort of like a cross between working with legacy code and toxic site cleanup.

Like back in the day being brought in to “just fix” a amalgam of FoxPro-, Excel-, and Access-based ERP that “mostly works” and only “occasionally corrupts all our data” that ambitious sales people put together over last 5 years.

But worse - because “ambitious sales people” will no longer be constrained by sandboxes of Excel or Access - they will ship multi-cloud edge-deployed kubernetes micro-services wired with Kafka, and it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.

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1. linsomniac ◴[25 Aug 25 15:00 UTC] No.45014613[source]▶
>it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.

IMHO, there's a strong case for the opposite. My vibe coding prompts are along the lines of "Please implement the plan described in `phase1-epic.md` using `specification.prd` as a guide." The specification and epics are version controlled and a part of the project. My vibe coded software has better design documentation than most software projects I've been involved in.

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2. VincentEvans ◴[25 Aug 25 20:42 UTC] No.45018726[source]▶
I assume you have some software engineering fundamentals training.
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3. linsomniac ◴[26 Aug 25 01:15 UTC] No.45021150[source]▶
Training? Not a lick. I took AP Pascal back in High School...