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[Cadavre Exquis]

The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes
Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday September 13, 2025 @12:34PM from the bad-vibrations dept.

"Freelance developers and entire companies are making a business out of fixing shoddy vibe coded software," writes 404 Media, interviewing one of the "dozens of people on Fiverr... now offering services specifically catering to people with shoddy vibe coded projects."

Hamid Siddiqi, who offers to "review, fix your vibe code" on Fiverr, told the 404 Media that "Currently, I work with around 15-20 clients regularly, with additional one-off projects throughout the year. ("Siddiqi said common issues he fixes in vibe coded projects include inconsistent 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," as well as work o color schemes, animations, and layouts.)

And others coders are also pursuing the "vibe coded mess" market:

Swatantra Sohni, who started VibeCodeFixers.com, a site for people with vibe coded projects who need help from experienced developers to fix or finish their projects, says that almost 300 experienced developers have posted their profiles to the site. He said so far VibeCodeFixers.com has only connected between 30-40 vibe code projects with fixers, but that he hasn't done anything to promote the service and at the moment is focused on adding as many software developers to the platform as possible...

"Most 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," Sohni told me. "So for them it's more for prototyping..." Another big issue Sohni identified is "credit burn," meaning the money vibe coders waste on AI usage fees in the final 10-20 percent stage of developing the app, when adding new features breaks existing features.

Sohni told me he thinks vibe coding is not going anywhere, but neither are human developers. "I feel like the role [of human developers] would be slightly limited, but we will still need humans to keep this AI on the leash," he said.

The article also notes that established software development companies like Ulam Labs, now say "we clean up after vibe coding. Literally."

"Built something fast? Now it's time to make it solid," Ulam Labs pitches on its site," suggesting that for their potential customers "the tech debt is holding you back: no tests, shaky architecture, CI/CD is a dream, and every change feels like defusing a bomb. That's where we come in."

[Cadavre Exquis]

More Return-to-Office Crackdowns, with 61.7% of Employees Now in Office Full-Time
Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday September 13, 2025 @07:18PM from the case-of-the-Mondays dept.

Paramount and Comcast's NBCUniversal are joining Microsoft in telling employees "they could face consequences if they don't return to the office more frequently," reports the Washington Post:

NBCUniversal sent a memo to its employees telling them to return to the office four days a week starting in January [with the option to work remotely on Fridays]. Last week, Paramount told employees to return five days a week, with the first group starting in January. Both Paramount and NBCUniversal said they would offer severance packages to eligible employees who are unwilling or unable to make the switch... Companies have been cracking down on flexible work for the past several years, with Goldman Sachs being one of the first to implement a five-day office policy. Since then, others have joined in including Amazon, AT&T, JPMorgan Chase and the federal government...

Overall, the number of people working full time in office hasn't changed much over the past couple of years. About 61.7 percent of salaried employees worked from an office full time in August, according to data from university researchers Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis, who are studying the matter. That is down one percentage point from August 2024, their research shows. During the same period, the amount of people working remotely dropped two percentage points and those working hybrid schedules increased three points.

While most of the big office pushes are coming from some of the largest employers in the nation, the majority of companies in the United States aren't requiring full-time office work, said Brian Elliott [publisher of the Flex Index, which tracks flexible policies, and CEO]. And about half of U.S. workers are employed by smaller companies, he added. Some companies are capitalizing on the mandates, using flexible policies as a way to poach talent from their competitors, he said....

Some employers are using office mandates to purposely shed workers. An August report from the Federal Reserve Bank shows that "multiple districts reported reducing headcounts through attrition — encouraged, at times, by return-to-office policies and facilitated, at times, by greater automation, including new AI tools." Still, with fewer job openings in the market, some employees will have to comply with office mandates.

Announcing their return-to-office mandates, employers gave the following reasons:

•	"In-person collaboration is absolutely vital to building and strengthening our culture and driving the success of our business. Being together helps us innovate, solve problems, share ideas, create, challenge one another, and build the relationships that will make this company great."
	— Paramount CEO David Ellison (in a memo to staff)
•	"It has become increasingly clear that we are better when we are together. As we have all experienced, in-person work and collaboration spark innovation, promote creativity, and build stronger connections."
	— Adam Miller, NBCUniversal chief operating officer (in a memo to staff)

Saludos.

[tomasjos]

El tema de la falta de trabajadores por la vivienda está en boga en toda España

Galicia tiene más de 10.000 empleos sin cubrir por falta de vivienda https://share.google/Pd6Knv54tJeMWAMlz

[tomasjos]

Y la falta de vivienda la provoca en buena medida la gentrificación

Los estadounidenses lideran el interés extranjero por la compra de vivienda en Asturias https://share.google/EolcKVmOWFitwfOHi

[Benzino Napaloni]

El tema de la falta de trabajadores por la vivienda está en boga en toda España

Galicia tiene más de 10.000 empleos sin cubrir por falta de vivienda https://share.google/Pd6Knv54tJeMWAMlz

El déficit de alojamiento asequible dificulta la necesaria contratación de trabajadores extranjeros, estrangula la capacidad de producción y crecimiento; y obliga a las empresas a ejercer de caseros

¿No será que hasta los extranjeros que supuestamente se dan de tortas por venir están haciendo también la peineta? Igual que los turistas alemanes cuando hasta a ellos les ha salpicado la ola de precios absurdos.

Pues ale, hermosos. A ponerle el cascabel al gato, ahora que es prácticamente imposible ocultar el problema y empezar a señalar.