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Fun story!
The CEO was charmed by some AI vibe dude who
CEO gave him a three month trial run to show it.
AI vibe dude spent the first two weeks showing off all this cool new frontend to managers. Nothing actually worked. They gave him a round of feedback.
Then he spent another two weeks struggling to meet the feedback.
They ended the trial because the AI Vibe coder dude couldn't handle system changes, how to fix bugs, implementing new feature requests without breaking old stuff, and didn't have any real coding skills. He barely lasted a month.
The first half of this story made me wonder if we were colleagues.
The second half was different though. Our guy was a personal friend of some high up, slandered the existing codebase without so much as even speaking to the existing devteam, and then took the better part of a year claiming he could replace the entire decade old codebase while making vague promises that it was coming soon. Meanwhile upper management was taking the slander seriously, punished my department and got a new manager for it. It wasnt until the new manager outed him as a fraud for his ass to finally get caught.
I doubt he was able to read the legacy codebase at all.