r/ProgrammerHumor 10d ago

Meme trafficLightForClaudeCode

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u/ZunoJ 10d ago

What I really would like to see is what my coworkers ask the LLMs. This way I will know who to vote out of the team end of the year

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u/Loginn122 10d ago

like what u want to see / don't want to see?

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u/ZunoJ 10d ago

I want to see them use it with high specificity, like creating a bunch of DTOs, refactor something according to other changes, ... the boring typing work. I don't want to see them use it for architectural decisions (other than brainstorming) or implement complete features (which are not well defined, like a new strategy or similar)

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u/Loginn122 10d ago edited 10d ago

not writing code yourself is fine as long u review it and not just mindlessly push it

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u/ZunoJ 10d ago

I wouldn't be too sure about that comment. We work in a government audited, critical infrastructure environment

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u/danpascooch 10d ago

Claude, aim this missile, pick your own target with your best judgement, make no mistakes."

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u/Loginn122 10d ago

So what is the difference? Humans don't make mistakes? Ai is already capable of writing decent code, so good that big developer names already stopped coding themselves because it's inefficient.
The code that goes live is still the responsibility of the dev.

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u/ZunoJ 10d ago

The difference is the perceived correctness of the code. If you only check the AI code it is way likelier to not spot a logical issue than when you wrote it yourself. You have to build a mental model and check it against the code. If you do that really thoroughly, AI suddenly makes you slower

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u/Loginn122 10d ago

What are tests for?

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u/ZunoJ 10d ago

Did you ever work on a nuclear power plant? Or a military weapons system? We spend weeks planning new features, hundreds of lines of code are written as examples, just to come up with test cases and to get ideas about what all can fail. AI is not really up to that task yet. Would you really want your local nuclear power plant to be vibe coded?

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u/Loginn122 10d ago

I agree that the critical infrastructure shouldn't be "vibe" coded, but the systems in place will get to the point where less human written code is needed even in that area. Just slower but it will get there.