If there’s something worse than an average engineer doing vibe coding, that’s a pm doing vibe coding. What’s next? Marketing guys automating backups?

Thanks for the chuckle - you know there's more than one marketing guy out there who will say in all seriousness "I can do that for you" :-)

Based on the current state of AI that's strange. They must be 100% sure that vibe coding will eventually replace engineers for them to go in that direction. Which is also strange because i don't see it still. Isn't it too early to replace engineers with vibe coders

not if you're trying to impress your bosses to get a promotion.

Exactly, you align your business objectives with the vision of your managers and the industry trend.

Right now it appears that most industry leaders have fully committed to AI. It would be foolish (career wise) to speak openly otherwise.

what's next. Companies will just let the customers vibe code what they're asking for

Or just a technical product manager.

Honestly, the biggest mistake IMHO was hiring non technical product managers and putting them in charge of technical teams. They’re almost always annoying af, useless, and tbh “people skills” only go so far because it’s mostly a systems problem that communication falls apart.

Having worked at successful tech companies (that IPO’d), I have never met a non-technical product manager who was any good or worth remembering.

The best thing happening in tech right now IMO are the layoffs affecting PMs and other "manager" types. We all know they add very low value because their actual role is "scapegoat" when their projects fail (mostly due to them in the first place). It is also why they were almost always the only ones fired prior to AI revolution.