alt Hacker NewsWhen these vibe coded projects realise that maintenance, security updates, API changes are still needed. Get ready for a massive swing back to senior software developers being in demand.
Playing software maintainer while many vibe coded web apps aren't built with proper software architecture or practices only makes the swing back to senior engineers being in demand a possibility.
Good luck to those who are building 600K-LOC vibe coded web apps with 40+ APIs stitched together.
Honestly, "vibe-code-cleaners" are already out there and in demand!
I even expect "vibe-code-scalers" will come soon, to be able to fix and scale up the spaghetti AI agents plopped in the first place.
The author seems to be an Amazonian, it also seems that they are good at "Invent", but not at "Simplify" bit.
Big-Tech has invented LLMs, that is great. Big-Tech hasn't been great when it comes to "Simplify"-ing things. Actually, notoriously bad at it.
That is the opportunity here; "Simplifying" these workflows, making AaaS (Agent as a Service or AI as a Service)