Yes, in my experience its goes like:

me: " This is a problem for us"

them: "Your 'problem' is simple. I can fix it, easy. Here is the fix, you're welcome."

me: "Great! how does it work? how do we test it? did you get management to assign some resources for this?"

them: "oh, this was vibecoded, so I'm not providing support , maintenance or user testing - that's your job isn't it? Here's a 250-page 'documentation'. I haven't read it, but I ran it through a second LLM and asked that to fix any errors. So there's probably only a few left that you should be able to fix in a few minutes. "

me: " I will take up work on a farm administering anal suppositories to sick horses because that will be a thousand times more tolerable . . ."

them: " . . . by the way - it just operates using dummy data for now. You'll just need to link it in to the actual database before you release it."

It is a slur, but management got a hold of it and now it's everything. Enshittification means everything's shit now.

If they try to appeal to a certain AI-techbro/political segment because they have given up on ever reaching a general audience, then yes, some people do use that in a professional setting. It attracts that particular segment while it has the nice feature to repel everyone else.

there are like different levels of vibe coding. like from "user just gives goal and AI does everything else" to "AI just does the repeatable boilerplate, but does not make any technical decisions and is heavily reviewed".

People use that in a professional setting?

Yes. Every level. Everything use of AI and vibecoding that you can imagine is used in a professional setting. Sometimes it happens because individual employees are lazy. Sometimes the company actively embraces it

And there's even a very bad marketing department at Mistral (french company, only frontier lab at Europe) because they call "vibe" their coding harness. They don't even value their products, which is fine (they suck)