The future of engineering was supposed to look like this: AI handles the boring stuff. Humans focus on architecture, hard problems, and product. What it often looks like instead: juniors (and some seniors) blasting Claude or other LLMs with vague prompts, copy‑pasting whatever comes out into massive PRs, you spending your week diff‑diving, untangling “AI slop,” and explaining basic trade‑offs in code review. The robots didn’t take your job. They just turned you into an underpaid bot babysitter. AI didn’t automate away my work. It automated the creation of bad work and left me responsible for all of the cleanup. Meet the “Vibe Coder”: Shipping PRs by Feel, Powered by LLMs Every team now has at least one vibe coder. You know the profile: never reads the existing codebase deeply, never asks about architecture, but can generate 1,000+ lines of “looks impressive” code in an afternoon. Their workflow: Paste a ticket into Claude / another LLM. Get a wall of code, tests, and maybe even docs.…