Reckless vibe-coding is on the rise in tech companies and needs to stop

Many of my friends and I have been observing a rise in something the industry doesn't yet have an agreed-upon name as of writing. Some call it "meat proxying", some call it "AI psychosis", some call it "cognitive surrender", the list goes on. In this post I'll call it "reckless vibe-coding" just to make the concept easier to understand. This is when a developer is assigned a task, be it to review a PR, work on a reasonably complex coding task, or even just asked a simple question, and all they do is prompt an agent "do X" and copy-paste the results back to you. They don't guide the agent toward the right path, they don't check if the agent's solution is appropriate, in fact they might not even look at the generated content at all. They will just prompt it and forward it to you regardless of what the output actually turns out to be. Despite being technically "prompted" by the human, in practice the work was 100% handled by the agent and the presence of the human made no difference…

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