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Managing the Employee Who Knows Everything and Understands Nothing

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Welcome to the 2nd post in this series. I hope you find it useful. Vibecoding is here and is not going away.  The biggest part of vibecoding, whether you're a decades-old coder or someone who started coding 5 minutes ago, is that you have to look at it as a manager, not a coder. You manage a coder, not write the code. Sure, you may type some code now and then, but in the long term you will prompt the AI to do it. Somebody at work found out you'd built a thing. So now there's a request: a small internal tool, nothing fancy, something to replace the spreadsheet everyone complains about. You said yes, because these days you can say yes. Two weeks later it works. Four people use it every morning. Then one of them asks what happens if two of them hit save at the same instant, and you have no idea. You'd never thought about it. The AI never brought it up, because you never asked, and it doesn't volunteer information unless you told it to.  That's not a story abo...
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The Machine Codes Better Than Us, and That Is Not the Problem

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After 30 years in IT support, networking, training, and a variety of other areas, I have come to realize that technology gets better over time. Wow! I know what a revelation. There is still an argument about who is better, and to borrow a great quote, “From a certain point of view…” honestly, both viewpoints are right. That is the focus of this blog. AI is better at coding. AI can generate code faster and with fewer typos than a human. But can it generate better code? Yes and no. Yes, if it's guided properly, and no if it is not. Vibecoding, according to Webster’s, is a semi-recently coined term for programming by prompting an AI, which then writes the code. In vibecoding, the coder does not need to understand how or why the code works (which, in my opinion, is wrong, but we will get to that soon enough), and often must accept that a certain number of bugs and glitches will be present. I disagree with that last statement. In fact, I think the opposite is true. AI can help remov...
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