Dunning Kruger IT Manager
Hi
Our head of technology (not technical at all, sales background) has discovered vibe coding and I'm genuinely worried. He's a good guy with good business ideas and I want to be supportive, but the idea of huge technical debt is stressing me out.
He's spent some time with ChatGPT and Claude Code and now believes that all of our enterprise systems are fair game, there to be replaced by vibe coded projects. I'm not exaggerating.
Surprisingly, after a few hours he's got working prototypes of a couple of apps.
I want to support AI innovation in the business but I thought using it as an adjunct was probably going to be the starting place (not vibe coding replacements for our industry standard production systems.)
As someone that has postgraduate studies in IT, I would have thought what he lacks in technical experience, he would make up for with some careful project management and consider the business risks of such an approach.
Am I just living in 2025? Like I said the proof of concept is impressive, is this actually becoming a viable approach in 2026? I don't see how it could scale or become trustworthy to start building business processes upon.
Interested to get people's thoughts
Thanks