Vibe coders this past year have made me a lot of money. I’ve pretty much transitioned from being a freelance dev to a digital janitor as it makes me more money. Just code reviewing their slop. It’s extremely easy too, much easier than reviewing code of an actual dev.
“We need you to review this and see why it doesn’t work” /me opens up nvim and does a / for #TODO that was written by Claude “the AI didn’t implement it but said it did…I’ll take my $2500 now thank you”
because fixing a problem in the United States won’t line anyones pockets with dollar bills.
Someone saw a problem, figured HOW to financially gain from said problem, not solve the problem in order to financially gain from it. So some company has scored a contract to patrol schools with drones in order to “prevent” school shootings and we know they won’t and the US tax payer will pay for it.
Problems in the United States are never fixed, they’re handled.
reminds me of stories of when they would target wrestling fans. Like they would pretend they were WWE wrestlers and talk to fans and get them to send them money cause they’d be broke. Then one time of the fans actually went to a show to confront one of the wrestlers about paying them back. jumped the barricade and everything.
Just blows my mind that it always seems to be mentally ill individuals that have a ton of money and they can just easily hand it out like that.
this was 30+ years ago, I’ve never been to one since then so I’m very sure it’s changed.
it’s been a spell since I’ve been to the US but the only thing I remember about Cracker Barrel is the triangle/golf tee game they had at the tables. The food? I don’t remember anything about the food or what I even ate. but that game? I was all over it.
I actually preferred Bob Evans breakfasts. I remember as a kid whenever my family visited the states I would insist we go to Bob Evans for breakfast.
That’s where I’m making my money. Went from a freelance/consultant dev to pretty much a digital janitor for companies. it IS the next big industry.
Get good at code reviewing - hell really you don’t even need to be that good at it all you need to do is know the typical Claude Code comments and search for a lot of “#TODO’s”
I make more money doing this now than I did just being a developer. If you’re looking for work I HIGHLY suggest you deal with the crap on Linkedin and start advertising yourself as an expert code reviewer with a specialty in diagnosing “AI generated builds”. Then wait for the desperate companies to start trickling in.