Tbf, some colleagues I've had were introducing more bugs than features just fine before LLM's were even a thing.

I've once been at company that had 90%+ such colleagues.

Uff, if that is the future of this industry, I'll retire as well

At least you can correct them, right? Imagine working with pure vibe coders with no CS degree or even a bootcamp under their belt.

I've had one co-worker with something like a decade of experience on paper, who was proud of his C++ despite having never heard of the standard template library — lots of `new` and `free`, not a single smart pointer (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory#Smart_pointers). And the code they wrote had a lot of copy-paste going on, which I ended up finding because I'd put in a "TODO: deduplicate this" comment somewhere and found it in his newly duplicated class one day.

They absolutely were not interested in learning anything. I left knowing more C++ than they did despite having started there with total C++ experience of a hello world tutorial, and the fact that I still don't count myself as a C++ dev today.

To be fair when a company says they use C++, it can mean anything from "C with classes" to crazy metaprogramming with almost automatic memory management. Since they have over 10 years experience, they are almost definitely in the former camp.

I would never utter the phrase "I know C++" because it can mean so many different things to so many different people, and I don't think anyone truly knows the whole language.

Not using templates nor smart pointers doesn't sound that bad to me(unless the entirety/majority of the codebase was written with them in mind), the duplication thing is more questionable.

It's not so much that this specific person didn't use smart pointers, it's that they had never even heard of them, and wasn't interested either.

"C with classes" is probably a good description, given what I saw from that one person — they didn't understand sub-typing either, and only had a cargo-cult understanding of access specifiers (revealed when the rest of us asked them why they'd duplicated a class file rather than subtyping).

Tbh, I also (sort of) knew C++, studied in school and a few semesters worth in college (CUDA, DSA, Computer vision elective,compiler design) but I still don't know STL. (I had been then interviewing using Java and Python.)

Nope! I reverted a commit once, since a colleague pushed something that didn't compile to master. Sent the guy a polite message notifying him that something seems to have been amiss with his last commit, and to please let me know if he wanted help fixing it.

Boss called me 5 minutes later and tells me off for creating "bad vibes" in the work environment.

Colleague then proceeded to forcepush his "fix" that still didn't even compile to master, removing a new feature I was about to roll out to production, because he didn't know how to merge his changes with the revert commit I'd added

This was when I decided to quit

Oh I should add this developer bragged he had 10+years working experience. Not that I believe him, but still

I know some talented coders who were doing quite well before. Now they fallen into vibe coding and when I come across a bug they just introduced and I can’t seem to find the source they reply they have no idea but will have a look.

The decline in the skills are clearly visible. And they’ve only vibe coded under a year.

Can say so for myself. Have been hitting LC lately for an upcoming interview and I have found I have gotten worse like considerably worse, after having grinded in college and barely touching it for 6 years. I had to look up how to implement topological sorting today for example and even then flubbed it.

Because it's somthing you never need to implement in any real-world job, unless that job is developing a library routine to do topological sorting.

I dont agree. The reason you are forced to learn DSA in college and is tested in LC is because these data structures and algorithms are everywhere.

You may claim that nobody ever will need to know about topo sort, but keep using AirFlow for your pipelines or storing and display a Sitemap tree on your website.

if you dont know the basics, you will inevitably reinvent in using substandard, inefficient data structures and buggy algorithms.

I have not thought about writing a sort or any kind of complex data structure beyond a dict or an array/list since my undergrad CS days which was almost 40 years ago. It just doesn't come up. If it does in your job, sure you need to know it. For most jobs it doesn't.

Agree. Topological sorting isn't a part of my job. A hash map might be the most complicated data structure I've used on the job. (Relatively speaking)

Me and another tech lead recently got into an argument with one of our "senior" devs about how to best implement logging in a new service. They started sending screenshots of text to bolster their points. When asked where that was coming from they admitted they were just asking chatgpt. It was infuriating.

I had once an incompetent manager provide a feedback on my code using ChatGPT.

This is the BIGGEST red flag of a person "faking till they make it"

I guess we could write a whole thread on incompetent managers, I used to work with a manager who's only talent is rephrasing something someone else said in a more serious way, or just telling something in a whole list of buzzwords that make him look he's talking something serious. In-fact when it can be summarized in few simple few words. Apart from that he had zero technical knowledge, and I still wonder how he came to that position

I would like to think that no company that actually wants to make money selling products to users, rather than stories to VCs, will do this.

Its a joke...but I do know "vibe coders". There are some recent grads I know who have supposedly studied programming yet I don't think they write a single word of code themselves and get confused with simple concepts like reading a simple database even with select * statements.