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OpenAI themselves uses vibe coding to develop their services

Put "I don't have any experience in software engineering but can vibe code very well" on your resume and see if you get any interest from OpenAI or Anthropic or any one in the long list of companies that have declared software engineering dead and LLMs the future of coding.

It's telling that they will put their own applicants through a dozen rounds of stringent technical interviews, Leetcode exercises, use anti-AI assistance tools and pay their staff $500K or more, all for something they advertise as being easy to vibe code away.

That's a bit dishonest. Obviously, vibe coding is only productive for engineers who actually know what they're doing. Perhaps it is best to consider it a multiplier, not an enabler.

OpenAI is in no way "commercially successful."

You can't say they are "in no way" commercially successful when they have around one BILLION monthly users. That's just disingenuous.

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