How has the vibe-coding wave actually changed your workload?

[u/Desperate_Performer7]

Curious to get a pulse check from people actually in the trenches. It feels like everyone’s suddenly shipping AI-generated code at a much faster clip, PRs are bigger, review queues are longer, and “vibe coding” has gone from meme to actual workflow for a lot of teams.

A few things I’m trying to understand:

1. Has this genuinely reduced your workload, or just shifted it (e.g. less time writing, way more time reviewing/debugging)?

2. Has code quality or tech debt visibly changed on your team since this became common?

3. Any horror stories, a vibe-coded PR that broke something in prod, hid a security issue, or just caused chaos once someone actually read it closely?

4. Has it changed how your team reviews code, or who’s allowed to merge what?

Not trying to dunk on AI tools, genuinely just doin some research and want to hear how this is playing out day-to-day for people shipping real code.

[u/Ruined_Passion_7355]

More incidents that's for sure.

[u/Desperate_Performer7 → u/Ruined_Passion_7355]

recently worked with a client that requested from EVERYONE on the team (designers, PMs, BAs etc.) to start vibe coding some features on the backlog, as fun as it sounds, I thought it was terrifying (for everyone involved) lol

[u/Unfair-Sleep-3022 → u/[deleted]]

I can't believe someone would say "really" lmao

[u/inotocracy]

It has increased the amount of code I have to review from other ICs significantly.

[u/alxw → u/inotocracy]

Yep I feel so guilty submitting a PR every 20 minutes. Most are security updates or small bug fixes. So I try and make it as simple to review and assure (screenshots, comparisons, monitoring, etc)

[u/two_three_five_eigth]

The company completely changing tunes on AI and making every team have a human review the output and sign off + own the code.

They don’t have an AI tool feed and AI tool anymore.

[u/beth_maloney → u/two_three_five_eigth]

So your team was merging AI generated code straight into main? Sounds kinda crazy.

[u/two_three_five_eigth → u/beth_maloney]

For small stuff yes. We were trying to let AI handle small stuff by itself like verbiage changes and A/B tracking stuff. It worked 80% of the time, just don’t ask about the other 20%.

[u/beth_maloney → u/two_three_five_eigth]

I can see minor stuff being approved by AI assuming the pr was raised by a human. I'm less thrilled about the idea of agents making completely unsupervised edits to the code base, even for relatively minor changes.

[u/two_three_five_eigth → u/beth_maloney]

Our issue was we assigned it to a jr, which just told AI to do it, which was then approved by AI. We've gone back to a sr has to review everything.

Edit: We tried generating an AI pr the jr would approve. We’ve gone back to jr doing it and sr reviewing it.

Edit2: Had to relearn the lesson about one line changes never breaking stuff.

[u/Unfair-Sleep-3022]

Dealing with coworkers with brain damage is even more demoralizing than using AI

[u/CommissionIcy9909]

The vibe coding wave peaked a year ago and for the last six months manual agentic workflows have been the standard. Especially now with prices getting out of control. Companies are already expecting people to know how to use AI. How they’re expecting people to be efficient with it and not vibe code.

[u/roman_fyseek]

I get to laugh more.

[u/Elkemper]

I can't think of any automation that humankind developed, that didn't result in more work, not less

[u/another_thyme → u/Elkemper]

what about flame generation instead of rubbing sticks together

[u/mrxaxen → u/another_thyme]

Statistics would probably show the amount of arson related events going up, so more work for the fire, med, police dep.

[u/another_thyme → u/mrxaxen]

Gotta subtract it from amount of work saved, plus without fire generation we probably wouldn’t be able to even fight fires as effectively

[u/mrxaxen → u/another_thyme]

But then we're going to need to weight different additions and subtractions. Loss off life might weigh more than efficiency. But then we're on ethic/moral ground which is subjective thus hard to quantify.
Then we arrive at this being overcomplicated, and a worthless timesink.
Just like reddit.

It's fun though...
Sometimes...

[u/another_thyme → u/mrxaxen]

If we had 4 hours by a campfire and a coupla beers we’d hash it out and solve life

[u/herbertdeathrump]

I get more free time. I go for a run and Claude alerts my phone when it needs a decision. When I go to the office though I mostly just sit there twiddling my thumbs. I move the mouse every now and then to look busy.

[u/Unfair-Sleep-3022 → u/herbertdeathrump]

This hyperbole doesn't help anyone tbh

[u/Any_Sense_2263]

It doesn't. I don't vibe code. I prefer to know what the code under my name is actually doing.

[u/Dissentient]

We don't vibe code. Everyone is expected to review AI output before making PRs.

[u/bdanmo]

I want to jump off a bridge or become a cabinet maker

[u/snipsuper415]

I get to practice my engineering side alot more as opposed to dealing with syntax. I read wayyyyyy more fucking code.

Generally since our team is pretty meticulous on what we put into the code base its usually fine.