Pattern: 'AI Slopware' Creating a Profitable Bug-Fix Consulting Niche
r/programming·medium signal
r/programming post (98 score, 36 comments) documents companies that went all-in on AI-first engineering now discovering apps are slower than dial-up, compute costs are exploding, and '10x engineers' are under-delivering. The emergent counter-pattern: fixing vibe-coded production systems is becoming a high-value consulting niche as the first generation of AI-generated codebases hits real operational load.