Jira-milton (Broadway Cast)

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A tribute/theme tune for the Skeptics with a K Podcast. This started life as an AI reworking of their actual theme tune, but, for copyright reasons, was then completely rewritten from scratch as an original song.

They're the Skeptics With a K

[verse]
He came from finance, had a thirst for numbers
He thought that software was something you could trade
for which you just paid
He had some projects that were utter murder
Such shitshows that from start to finish were wrecks
Although he'd signed the right cheques
[pre-chorus]
And he didn't understand
It's never about the cash in hand
[chorus]
You wanna pair with proper coders
You wanna see what proper coders do
Wanna fail your unit tests more
Wanna see them pass then refactor them too
Wanna be like proper coders
Wanna get shit done better than before
Then you'll never ever ever..
take it offshore
[bridge]
But the consultancies all said what he wanted to hear
That they'd make his problems all disappear
That redemption from their mistakes was quite near
That they could invoice in a way not too dear
But the results were really queer
[pre-chorus]
And he didn't understand
It's never about the cash in hand
[chorus]
You wanna pair with proper coders
Not some wacky hacky amateurs
You want to trust those proper techies
You wanna use professional coders not the rest
They don't so much test as take a wild assed guess more and more
Then you'll never ever ever..
take it offshore
[spoken]
But his financial heart and his financial brain
Couldn't process all these reasonable claims
He couldn't help but try to fudget
To align malpractice with his budget
And even though the game was getting old
He wanted resources that could be bought and sold
[pre-chorus]
And he didn't understand
It's never about the cash in hand
[chorus]
You wanna pair with proper coders (proper coders)
You wanna get results that are some use (some use)
Wanna work with actual grown ups (grown ups)
Wanna see them make software not excuses (excuses)
Wanna see them interacting on teams calls galore (like people)
Wanna get to know a brilliant crew (what a sensible thing to do)
Then you'll never ever ever..
take it offshore
Then you'll never ever ever..
take it offshore

Proper Coders

[chorus]
Vibe coding
Vi-i-i-eyeb coding
Anyone with a bit of swagger can become a technological blagger
Vibe coding
Spewing code out by the ton
Coding for free, with a Chat GPT

[verse]
Who needs security anyway?
And unit tests will only lead you astray
Vibe coders don't need to think that deep so
They can store their credentials in their GitHub repos
And if the time comes for them to debug
They just smash in a fresh prompt with a shrug

[chorus]
Vibe coding (vibe coding)
Vi-i-i-eyeb coding (vibe coding)
Anyone with a bit of swagger can become a technological blagger (aaaaah)
Vibe coding (vibe coding)
Spewing code out by the ton (what does any of it do?)
Coding for free, with a Chat GPT (Chat GPT)

[verse]
I never acquired any actual skills (my career is tragic)
But I can conjure up something complex with a Harry Potter spell (Chat GPT is just magic)
My previous powers were nearly nought but
I've finally found this near-miraculous shortcut
I can vibe code all day long
What could possibly go wrong?

[bridge]
Oh god my sass product has been compromised
The scales are falling from my eyes
All this crazy code's gotten out of hand
Gonna have to hire a professional, cos I don't understand it
My fingers have been truly burnt
So this is a lesson I've finally learnt

[chorus]
Vibe coding (it's just guesswork)
Vi-i-i-eyeb coding (I thought it would be less work)
Anyone with a bit of swagger can become a technological blagger (aaaaah)
Vibe coding (it's the Dunning Kruger effect)
Spewing code out by the ton (what does any of it do)
Coding for free, (apart from the cost of fixing)
It's not the way to be (vibe coding)
No more ChatGPT

Jira-milton (Broadway Cast)

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