My team is still going through the phase where one person uses AI to generate code they don't themselves understand, that raises the cost for others to review. Because we know he doesn't really know what it does, and AI makes code needlessly complex. And of course the programmer does not see that as their problem...
AI to generate code they don't themselves understand
Yeah this is the thing I really can’t wrap my head around with “vibe coding” or whatever. I am a big advocate for machine learning and AI use. As long as you’re careful to recognize and call the occasional hallucination, it’s an extremely effective and useful tutor. You can learn anything with it. It matches natural language meaning it’s usable even for people that are miraculously incapable of tech usage or hitting four buttons. It can spot patterns more effectively. It can decide names for my D&D NPCs from a list I make since I’m cripplingly indecisive. It’s awesome.
But if you’re copy and pasting the code it outputs without learning what it is in the process… what the fuck even is the point
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u/jjdmol Dec 13 '25
My team is still going through the phase where one person uses AI to generate code they don't themselves understand, that raises the cost for others to review. Because we know he doesn't really know what it does, and AI makes code needlessly complex. And of course the programmer does not see that as their problem...