alt Hacker News> As recently as July, chief information officer Marco Argenti was talking up "vibe coding" by Goldman's non-technical employees. He told Bloomberg that traders and bankers had built tools with AI and passed them to the firm's engineers, of whom there are about 12,000, to be improved.
This is obviously a terrible way to go about it. It points at an organization issue rather than a technical one. Every trader is going to have a personal process for the tools they build. The idea that engineering teams should review all these half-baked one-shotted tools and "improve" on them sounds like a bad use of engineering resources.
my experience has been the opposite. Whenever an actual operator tells me about a process that they'd like automated, 95% of the time that's code that should be written. If some dude vibe coded a thing that pulls reports from an internal database, but has certain things he can't seem to get right, that's a perfect project.
As a "Engineer", working on internal tools and infrastructure, it's your job to make the operators life's easier and more effective, not the other way around.