The Vibe Coding Backlash Is Coming — And It's Justified
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Hot take: the "vibe coding" trend is creating a generation of developers who can't debug their own code. What I'm Seeing I mentor junior developers at a startup. In the last 6 months, I've noticed a pattern: Junior de gets stuck on a feature They paste the requirement into Claude/GPT They get working code back They ship it without understanding it It breaks in production They can't fix it because they don't understand what they shipped This isn't a hypothetical. I've seen it happen 4 times in the last month. The Problem Isn't AI AI coding tools are incredible. I use them every day.