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> Maybe another industry of cleaning up vibe coded messes will be a thing?

I have seriously considered hanging out my shingle to do this freelance, I don't think the time is quite ripe yet but maybe in a few months.

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My experience has been more like this: - Write small library as contract work. - Client vibe codes with it. Code doesn't work. - End up doing good faith assurance work to fix the vibe coded bug in the client code, the issue was not in my small library.

People are programming out on a limb - and blame goes to the library maintainer if the user lacks the fundamental skills to do troubleshooting.

Yeah my plan was to come in _after_ the vibe coders have done their damage, fix their mess for a somewhat extortionate amount of money, then tell them not to do it again.

Sounds like a nice niche for some Instant Consulting.

Wherever there is pain impeding capital, there is opportunity. And there is always a set of current pain points. There can only be no pain in a fully-autonomous organization with autonomous investors and customers too.

It seems like the future is converging on there will 5 Matrix savant architects who make $1B/y who keep things operating while everyone else lives in a shanty or a pod.

...right, I see where you're going with this, then we eat those five savants and everyone else is happy.

Nawh, we'll be the Eloi and they'll become the Morlocks. They'll probably eat us.

As someone who loves fixing weird bugs I kinda hope this becomes a thing. There’s nothing as satisfying as finding logic bugs.

Same, it's like solving puzzles, except with practical benefits including getting paid for it.

Basically the same as cleaning up after they hired the cheapest dev they can find. Something our little shop has been doing for 4 years now. Can't wait to charge to debug a 100,000 line vibe coded WordPress plugin.

Oh god, there will be money in this for sure, but at what cost?!?

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