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The vibe coder can have thousands of lines generated in 5 seconds, and if specific enough requirements and criteria were provided, there's a 50% shot that it works on the first try. In terms of labor expenses, that's a lot of time saved. You can talk about skilled programmers all you want, but companies are going to prefer having "vibe" coders as it saves them money, while having a few skilled programmers on hand for when SHTF.
I don't program for a living (so I don't really care), I'm a systems test engineer, but in my experience this has been the case with the teams I've worked with. Another thing I've noticed is that every year the number of people laughing at AI and doubting it seems to grow smaller or more quiet.
I have mixed feelings on AI as a whole myself, but I wouldn't laugh off the idea of "prompt engineering" becoming the most efficient way to generate a codebase by the 2030s. I also wouldn't be surprised if AI began to automate itself and give itself prompts and tasks based on human inputs to a database/model.
