writes about<\/a> the rise of an entire new class of coders, dubbed the \u201cvibe coding cleanup specialists,\u201d who can swoop in to fix the problems that AI-generated code creates for companies. The outlet cites one description shared with them by a specialist, who said his particular expertise was to \u201cpolish\u201d up codebases that might be a little rough around the edges:<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been offering vibe coding fixer services for about two years now, starting in late 2023. Currently, I work with around 15-20 clients regularly, with additional one-off projects throughout the year,\u201d Hamid Siddiqi, who offers to \u201creview, fix your vibe code\u201d on Fiverr, told me in an email. \u201cI started fixing vibe-coded projects because I noticed a growing number of developers and small teams struggling to refine AI-generated code that was functional but lacked the polish or \u2018vibe\u2019 needed to align with their vision. I saw an opportunity to bridge that gap, combining my coding expertise with an eye for aesthetic and user experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Siddiqi told 404 that he commonly assists companies with \u201cinconsistent UI\/UX design in AI-generated frontends, poorly optimized code that impacts performance, misaligned branding elements, and features that function but feel clunky or unintuitive.\u201d Yet another cleanup specialist, Swatantra Sohni, told the outlet that they think AI is being leveraged by people who don\u2019t otherwise have the digital skills to build products. The results are predictable:<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of these vibe coders, either they are product managers or they are sales guys, or they are small business owners, and they think that they can build something,\u201d Sohni told me. \u201cSo for them it\u2019s more for prototyping. Vibe coding is, at the moment, kind of like infancy. It\u2019s very handy to convey the prototype they want, but I don\u2019t think they are really intended to make it like a production grade app.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear how widely these services are being offered, but given the rising popularity of vibe-coding amongst small businesses<\/a>, it seems likely that it would be a growing market. As with many other AI-led industries, humans are still necessary after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The generative AI industry has promised to \u201cdisrupt\u201d society, and on that front, it can be said to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61,75032],"class_list":{"0":"post-139004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-vibecoding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}