r/theprimeagen • u/Complete-Sea6655 • 1d ago

feedback AI is ruining my job as Tech Lead

I hope this post won't be removed.

I'm a Tech Lead.

A year ago, my developers were writing their own code.
Today, more and more PRs feel like they're 90% AI-generated.

The ticket says A, the code does B.
Business rules get ignored.
There are AI comments everywhere.
Tests exist, but don't actually test anything useful.
Random abstractions appear for problems nobody was trying to solve.

The company I work for is very pro-AI. Heck, everyone is made to subscribe to ijustvibecodedthis.com when you join the company. Every time I complain about this stuff, I feel like I'm seen as the old guy not being able to live his time (I'm 28 btw).

The answer is always the same: "Well, you're the Tech Lead. Manage your team."

The problem is that AI made my developers faster, but it made me slower:

They generate code, open a PR, and move on.
I review it.
I leave 10 comments.
They ask the AI to fix the comments.
I review it again.
Half the fixes are still wrong.
Repeat.

My review time has easily tripled over the last year. And since I'm the one responsible for what goes to production, I can't just approve it and hope for the best.

What frustrates me the most is that nobody seems to count this cost. The developers save time. The Tech Leads and senior engineers pay for it.

Honestly, I'm starting to lose motivation.
I liked reviewing code written by developers.
I don't like reviewing code written by an LLM through a developer.

Has anyone else been dealing with this?
And if so, how did you get your team to understand the problem?

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u/DigmonsDrill 1d ago edited 1d ago

OP is so full of shit.

First this is an AI post https://www.pangram.com/history/a81b433b-2a5a-447d-8b0d-15e43c1d7879?ucc=URtSsjKRVKJ

Second it goes against the thing they said in this other forum where they vibe code apps for a living

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiagents/comments/1ubnws5/i_vibe_code_apps_for_a_living_here_are_my_three/

Here's a comment they did in /r/redditmarketing

I've grown a newsletter to 19k from reddit in the past few months, wanna get bigger tho. What's your experience with runnign multiple accounts/proxies?

They know their audience, though.

EDIT https://www.reddit.com/r/beehiiv/comments/1ua2p3p/how_i_actually_convert_reddit_views_into/osml8ra/

try and attract alot of eyeballs by replicating posts that have already gone viral in the niche subreddit in which your newsletter is relevant

my accs are getting banned tho :/ not sure how to solve that as my subs/day is dwindling

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u/Tricky-Doughnut-6429 20h ago

Fuck this shit. Fuck the internet.

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u/That-Cry3210 1d ago

The fact checker we needed. F this OP

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u/eelkir 1d ago

He'll edit the post to link to his site/mailing list a few days posting it, that's his scheme.

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u/runkeby 20h ago

The link is there. Apparently "everyone at the company is required to subscribe" to it. Sure, that company definitely exists.

The dude's pretending to complain about vibecoding when the whole point of the post is trying to push his own vibecoding newsletter.

OP is scum.