> Heck even Amjad was on a lenny's podcast 9 months ago talking about how PMs use Replit agent to prototype new stuff and then they hand it off to engineers to implement for production.
I got lectured this week that I wasn't working fast enough because the client had already vibe coded (a broken, non-functional prototype) in under an hour.
They saw the the first screen assembled by Replit and figured everything they could see would work with some "small tweaks" which is where I was allegedly to come into the picture.
They continued to lecture me about how the app would need Web Workers for maximum client side performance (explanations full of em-dashes so I knew they were pasting in AI slop at me) and it must all be browser based with no servers because "my prototype doesn't need a server"
Meanwhile their "prototype" had a broken Node.js backend running alongside the frontend listening on a TCP port.
When I asked about this backend they knew nothing about it be assured me their prototype was all browser based with no "servers".
Needless to say I'm never taking on any work from that client again, one of the small joys of being a contractor.
Please kill me now