vibe coders know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

I suspect that a big part of the next phase of dev work in general (like industry wide) is going to be more QA-like. 
 

A gray lining to the silver cloud of AI buddies (from the company and project perspective - obviously they are a threatening as hell frenemy for anyone who develops software for a living) - their code is so verbose. Beside the "tell" of explanatory comments after someone has used AI, some LLMs style favor a more baroque style. (This is anecdotal; it might be possible to direct an AI to be more concise, and maybe different LLMs act differently, this is just some empirical observation.)
 

I already think the industry doesn't put enough emphasis on simplicity and traceability and transparency, and there are places in my work's own code base where I think... this could be/should be more concise, and that enacts a long term cost in terms of maintainability. 


It reminds me of the old line "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."...  and the old Microsoft vs Unix approach paradigms, where Microsoft would often do so much for you, but when it came time to understand it to fix some low level thing, it was rough going.