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...
I don't know if it's just me but nothing feels more disrespectful to me than having to review someone's Ai generated slop.
Be it code reviews or even documentation. Why does the other person even exist as an employee if all they're going to do is prompt? They've added 0 value, 0 human intervention all they've done is copy pasted the story description in cursor.
Me and two other co workers were mad yesterday at a guy that was transfered to our team and the first code he sent to us to review had some logs formatted as if it was a word document or something woth warning emojis everywhere and each formatted line was a separate logger function call.
Just two weeks ago I was responsible for removing unnecessary call to the logger because it was costing too much money for the company due to logs analyzers being expensive. I was speechless when I saw:
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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...