This Senior Staff Engineer Vibe-Coded for the First Time, What Happened Next Will Shock You

Actually it won&rsquo;t shock you. Spoiler alert: Coding with AI is a skill. It&rsquo;s annoying but efficient. My prior experience handwriting code helped. By Gemini, obviously. This is the first and only post I&rsquo;ll ensloppify with AI &ldquo;art.&rdquo; I started programming seriously when I was in college, in the late 90s. Basic autocomplete in Microsoft Visual C++ was the state of the art…