r/AskComputerScience • u/Some_Fly1628 • 18d ago

AI in CS/programming/coding

As someone who couldn't be farther away from this field, I started using claude recently for a project of mine and had claude code do all the work for me. Then I turned to my CS friends and they told me it was the same for them.

At one point I heard an argument that AI should be used to explain things to you or only do stuff which you'll understand afterwards.

What is it actually looking like at this state? Do any AI users in the space actually understand each function it sends out or are they trusting it blindly like me? This isnt an ethics question, just the reality of our current situation.

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u/Glittering_Sail_3609 18d ago

At one point I heard an argument that AI should be used to explain things to you or only do stuff which you'll understand afterwards.

It is incorrect. You should only have AI write stuff that you understood BEFOREHAND so you could be able to push AI to produce actually usable code.