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At work with one of my colleagues we tried to accomplish a task by vibe coding it. Something seems to work. We reviewed the code and realized it's really terrible. Spotted a lot of potentially unexpected behavior.

Finally I said, I'm not comfortable with this shit. This cannot be used in production. Ended up writing it my self with some help from the LLM, but my instructions were very specific about what code it should write rather than letting it hallucinate the nonsense

Laeserin 6mo ago

We'll end up managing more and more code, and having the AI write most of it, and then we have to create tools and systems to evaluate what it wrote and do random sampling to detect smells.

AI means more code. Much more code. Exponential growth in code. And some of that code will be wicked and we have to find that needle in the hastack. And we have to find it in our own code, and in the code of all dependencies.

Out of the 591630 batches of shampoo your machines produced this year, did you find the batch 8269 that had little plastic pieces in it?

Well, did you? Did you even look? WTF do we pay you for?

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Jon 6mo ago

I have no idea how these llms are gonna change our lives.

But more and more code produced by devs&ai sounds plausible to me.

Laeserin 6mo ago

And no more excuses about dependencies.

Increasingly, we won't even roll out dependencies. We will use dependencies to build, like a template, and then slowly substitute them with our own AI-coded variant.

And then we have to sign off on the entire codebase.

Jon 6mo ago

Gonna be fun 😄

The Beave 6mo ago

I don't like the sound of that.

Laeserin 6mo ago

Why?

The Beave 6mo ago

It's the siren song of automation. If you spend more time automating a task than doing the task, you are wasting your life.

Laeserin 6mo ago

That is only true in the aggregate.

The Beave 6mo ago

I tend to think that way.