u/thechadbro34

everyone is terrified that vibe coders using UI agents are going to replace engineers. i’m seeing the exact opposite.

we just got hired to rescue a project built by a non-technical founder who 'vibe coded' the whole thing in cursor and Blackbox. the frontend looks like a $50m startup. the backend? it’s making 45 separate database calls per page load, state is completely fractured, and the auth tokens are stored in plain text in localStorage.

we are charging them 3x our normal rate to rip out the backend and write it properly while keeping the shiny ai frontend. 'vibe coding' isn't replacing senior devs (def not yet), it's just generating an infinite pipeline of highly funded tech debt for us to clean up

two years ago, setting up a local RAG pipeline using chroma or pinecone was the only way to get an LLM to 'read' your codebase.

Now, with 1m+ token context windows becoming the standard on claude and blackbox, you just drag and drop the whole /src folder into the prompt, the model just reads the whole thing in raw text in seconds. are any of you still maintaining local RAG setups for repos under 100k lines of code, or have massive context windows nearly killed the need for vector databases in standard web dev workflows?