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anonzzzies | on: Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
I like fixing code made by AIs and others (outsourcing code is similar as someone else said already). Last week we found out some client tried to vibe some departmental tool; the result is some massive crap in nextjs that needs 10GB mem to compile, has 1000s of lint errors, dev logs in git (very noisy ones) and so on. Now we have to fix it: its basically free 10k-50k euros over and over again for this type of work. Very easy if you know what you are doing; impossible if you don't. Keep m coming.
DenisM | parent | next
In some ways they are giving you a spec and UI mocks to implement.
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samrus | root | parent
This is a very interesting thought. We complain about having to fix some MBAs vibecpded slop, but it actually might be faster, easier, and alot less painful than getting them to try to explain their vision to us and implement what they have in mind.

Like they actually iterate on the UX alot when they are vibecoding things up, answer alot of questions that can onky be answered when you see an initial version of experience and realize something is off. Id rather they waste the clankers time with that than mine

ofjcihen | parent | next
This X a 1000.

I work in IR for small to medium sized business. The past few years have seen my business increase well beyond what I can reasonably handle and my bank account feels like a dragons pile of gold.

I will always always be on the side of security should be integrated and planned for and by no means do I want to see breaches.

That being said giving people of dubious expertise the ability to blast out an app in an hour has been an absolute windfall for me and others.

dawnerd | parent | next
Agencies that focus on this sort of work are going to make bank. We’ve already gotten some work like this, and it’s just going to keep coming as people think they can vibe code their products. Like you said, easy money.
tyleo | parent | next
Lots of people are gambling on AI with big bucks. Some of it is promising but all those bets won’t pay off. I like to think of this mindset as being the human slot machine that people are shoving money into.
justanotherunit | parent | next
Are clients really paying for it? It’s really fascinating actually. Is it because the ”client” built it so they have sentimental value and sold it to themselves before you receive the request?
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surfmike | parent | next
Did you use AI to rewrite it?
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imetatroll | parent | next
So how does one find these sorts of clients?
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allthetime | parent | next
why fix it when you can just easily re-write/generate it from scratch?
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roboror | parent | next
How much would it have cost to start from scratch?
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peter_d_sherman | parent | next
Interesting!

Yes, there's probably a market for vibe-coded software, but if there is, then there's also a market for fixing other companies' vibe-coded mistakes...

Phrased another way, you pay company A to vibe-code some software or extra software features for you, then you subsequently pay company B -- to fix company A's vibe-coded mistakes!

(Hey, look on the bright side! It's more money for taxes, GDP, employment ("jobs jobs jobs!"), and the circular Internet economy! :-) )

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rfgplk | parent
> the result is some massive crap in nextjs that needs 10GB mem to compile, has 1000s of lint errors, dev logs in git (very noisy ones) and so on.

The anti-LLM propaganda is getting ridiculous at this point. No project "needs 10GB" to compile, unless you're working with astronomically massive repos, and _no_ LLM will _ever_ generate that. Lint errors (depending on cause) are either meaningless or a result of poor prompt engineering. If you want your project linted/formatted a certain way make it clear to the LLM.

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