It was a mess from superfluous complexity from adopting every buzzword along his career, cloud, microservices, configuration management
That was the bane of my existence before AI and i suspect AI will only compound this issue.
If you do “artisan vibe coding”, acting like a very hands on CTO that challenges decisions and reviews most of the code produced, you get a modest productivity boost in the 20 to 40% range, and a large reduction in cognitive load which can help you think bigger thoughts on the longer term. The quality can be as high as you want it to be in that setup.
But if you do fully agentic unsupervised vibe-coding, it’s easy to get into a mess because it’s like having a team of junior/mids paid by the line churning out complexity all day long. The productivity boost can be a large multiple but the quality suffers because you have to ignore a lot of the stuff and the devil is in the details so he will certainly get you at some point.
That was the bane of my existence before AI and i suspect AI will only compound this issue.
If you do “artisan vibe coding”, acting like a very hands on CTO that challenges decisions and reviews most of the code produced, you get a modest productivity boost in the 20 to 40% range, and a large reduction in cognitive load which can help you think bigger thoughts on the longer term. The quality can be as high as you want it to be in that setup.
But if you do fully agentic unsupervised vibe-coding, it’s easy to get into a mess because it’s like having a team of junior/mids paid by the line churning out complexity all day long. The productivity boost can be a large multiple but the quality suffers because you have to ignore a lot of the stuff and the devil is in the details so he will certainly get you at some point.