This is one of the most senior engineers at Amazon saying that human code review is dead: https://x.com/MarcJBrooker/status/2101005954708021604
Nobody at this level is "vibe coding." They are using LLMs as a tool in a whole suite of tools that they have spent decades mastering, and LLMs happen to be the most powerful tool ever created. When you understand the existing tool suite, and can integrate this new super tool, the results are order-of-magnitude improvements in velocity, with much higher levels of quality and assurance.
Anybody talking about "code," like it is actually important, simply lacks the perspective to understand this.
We went from punch cards, to assembly, to C, to interpreted languages, to frameworks, to AI, and every cycle had the exact same debates.
A lot of it is Ego. Everyone thinks they are smarter than they actually are and that their work is uniquely valuable.
Computer programmers are monkeys who get paid to press buttons. We get paid because we know which buttons to push and in what order. It's a great gig. It's made me more money than I ever imagined possible, and I have fun doing it, but the flip side is that it is the most competitive industry on earth.
If you slow down, fall behind, and refuse to adapt, you will get eaten alive.
I have some sympathy for people, but an the end of the day, if you want to get paid better that 99% of people on earth, you are going to have to work for it. That is not an entitlement, and if you think it is, you will not make it.