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Imustaskforhelptoday at 9:33 AM5 repliesview on HN

Can you talk more in detail if possible and are allowed to do so?

I do know one instance of someone literally losing a job because they vibe-coded their way to prod. Their response/justification was: "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt"

They hadn't done anything to the database itself but you betcha that there are some horror stories involving database, lack of proper backups and Vibe-coding gone insanely wrong.


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cryo32today at 10:46 AM

I can say very little in detail but basically Claude doesn’t have any conceptual idea of order of operations and transactional guarantees which resulted in producing something that failed under normal load. There is an evidence chain to suggest it was asked to do this but did not and that wasn’t verified.

Our engineers are accountable for what they produce regardless of how so they are cleaning up the extensive mess this made. This will result in a very heated post-mortem meeting between the two factions in the company.

ValentineCtoday at 2:39 PM

> I do know one instance of someone literally losing a job because they vibe-coded their way to prod. Their response/justification was: "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt"

People like that and their managers should all be put on PIP right away.

It's not like there is a lack of talent on the market.

smoetoday at 12:45 PM

> "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt"

That seems like a good way to justify your own job away.

flirtoday at 12:03 PM

> "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt"

Culturally (across all LLM use, not just programming) we need to nip that in the bud. If we don't it's going to be the new "someone hacked my social media password" get out of jail free card for avoiding responsibility.

I don't care what tools you used, but if your name is on it, you're the author and the responsibility is yours. No "it wasn't me it was my typewriter" bullshit.

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latexrtoday at 12:02 PM

> Their response/justification was: "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt"

It boggles the mind someone could think that is a valid justification, because ultimately what they’re saying is “I’m useless, what you get from me is the same thing as prompting the model” which still means they would lose their job.