Former SWE (mostly full stack) with >10 years experience now vibe-coder here. Is anyone else starting to really fear for their career? I work for a small startup, and I know that this technology in my hands is more effective than in my employer’s, but I’m starting to feel a little useless. I give it good direction. I have it create plans, read them, correct them and send it. It helps me weigh making directive decisions. It even helps me do QA. But I am hardly writing code at all at this point. At what point is this stuff going to get so good that I’m truly out of a job? What do y’all think? For context, I’m paying for a max x20 plan via Claude and the equivalent Codex subscription. I let Claude do a lot of the planning with Fable and the higher end models, then dispatch Codex agents. I get work done so fast at this point that my employers are having a hard time keeping up with me. It even helps me diagnose cloud configuration stuff. My company doesn’t need more than one technical person at this point because I’m just able to do everything. I know you’ve all probably seen this post 100 times at this point. Or something like it. I know I have too. I’m just starting to actually feel worried for my financial wellbeing. Are people looking at other avenues for SWE? EDIT: Really appreciate the people pushing the “know your worth” idea here. Sometimes it’s hard to see your own experience. If you’ve been impacted by layoffs from poor executive management, or been in the job market the last 5 or so years, you know what kind of impact that can have on your confidence. We’re still here and we still solve the same old problems, just faster …for now. submitted by /u/Odd-Scientist8057
Originally posted by u/Odd-Scientist8057 on r/ClaudeCode
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