We've entered week 3 of my substituting for 2 colleagues.
Discussion
Good luck in the fiat mines!
I'm just bleary-eyed and run down, at this point. We're chronically understaffed.
It's really easy to find someone to vibe-code your software 🥴, but every other position is nearly impossible to fill with anyone highly competent. And now that everything is vibe-coded, the workload on the other positions has skyrocketed.
Testing is getting harder and harder with this vibe-coded crap, as it doesn't even do what the story describes and the devs don't even notice. And they have unit tests that are also vibe-coded, and it's like, did you even check that they find any bugs? I manually test everything and catch the bugs and hone the tests. You have to test your tests, ffs.
And if you write a bug report, they only fix half and return it and it's like, did you even read the other half? And then you realize that they didn't read the first half, either. ðŸ˜
Devs are getting hired-and-fired faster and faster. Friggin revolving door. Can nobody interpret a story and write a unit test, anymore?
At this point, the requirements engineers and test engineers are reduced to digging around in the product code to tell them, Here, this line and this line are in the wrong order and you need to check the boundary here, thanks.
But then,
WE COULD JUST WRITE IT OURSELVES, FFS, WHAT ARE YOU HERE FOR?
/rant