u/Butt_Plug_Tester

Every employer I’ve interviewed with asks me if I know how to use AI tools. They ask follow up questions like “tell me how you used AI tools speed up a workflow” or “tell me about a time AI made a mistake and you had to correct it.”

I failed a few interviews because I said I never used openclaw personally because of security issues, or that I don’t use something like Claude code or codex aside from experimenting with my projects since it’s pretty expensive. But then I just started saying that I use these tools all the time and I “prompt engineer”, and somehow got hired. It seems that employers #1 desired skill is someone who can vibecode, despite how fucking terrible and dogshit these “tools” are. Like if you say “create a bad word filter using the word list located x for the input field y using a hashmap in a singleton loaded when the page opens” it will probably do it, but it also has a very high chance of running into an error and then brute force “fixing” the error repeatedly, slowly drifting off from the prompt and breaking the codebase.

When I start working, im scared I’ll just not have time to review or make good code because the PM expects all the interns to shit out 20k lines a day.

Anyways, like what’s the point of doing assignments and projects honestly when employers just want a little proompter that can somehow snake charm, pied piper an agentic AI into getting a good result.

Like what I see on Reddit is fairly absurd, where all talk about models are a bot driven PR campaign, but genuinely every interview I’ve had asks how good I am with agentic coding tools.

Is this common everywhere? Are all SWEs just prompting something like Claude,codex, antigravity, pi or whatever and just scrolling on their phone?

I personally have tried the tools for various websites/projects I’ve made and all it can really do is make a functional, good looking frontend fairly fast, and will destroy your codebase with random brute force fixes when it comes to anything about race conditions, networking, databases, or non isolated bits of logic. There are definitely places I could vibecoded and it helped speed things up a lot, or I rubberduck and look up debugging or architecture info with a bot, but there’s no way people are running this on a 600k+ LoC repo and thinking it won’t melt it.

So is it really everywhere or is it just my experience…

Bro said that I need to get more comfortable with Agentic coding tools and programs like openclaw.

In the interview I didn’t even hate on vibe coding or anything, the only negative things I jsaid that I review AI generated code since it is prone to errors, brute force fixes, and poor optimization choices, and I don’t run programs like openclaw on my personal pc because it’s a security vulnerability.

After I went on about how I use agentic coding tools in my projects, how I let it speed up workflows, and then give those cons, bro interrupts me, says that’s where the models were 6 months ago and then boots up his vibecoded localhost app which runs into an unhandled exception after 10 seconds.

Like this motherfucker probably isn’t even hiring and just want to ragebait

It was like all my years of being a social reject autist became unbelievably valuable overnight. I was setting up discord calls and setting up 10 man custom league matches with my physics classmates during lecture.

My grades spiked up like crazy because I could just watch zoom lectures on 2x speed and rewind. Like I went from B’s and low A’s to near 100% in all my courses, except chemistry, fuck chemistry.

I played BDO with about 8 other people like 24/7, and we would stay up until 6am for world bosses and just fuck around.

My robotics club let us take all the expensive parts home so I could fuck around with a robot all day. Because people couldn’t go outside anymore, people started gaining tons of interest in hobbies I already had.

Life is still great but I do really miss those times.