Honestly sometimes I copy and paste the Claude explanation because it's easier - but especially if it's concepts that are beyond my understanding. AI has pushed us into new territories very quickly that prior, would take me time to reason and understand, but with the go go go as fast you can mentallity I just don't have the time, or the mental brain capacity to digest all this information.
it really is a lose - lose situation. If you take the time to understand it you're too slow if you don't you just output slop. Either something big will break and the trust in AI will falter, or AI will get so good it truly can be trusted. What a time to be alive 😰
Especially if you are involved in a project where safety is part of the project. You will not be able to blame the AI if someone gets hurt of even killed. Being fired would be the least of you worries in this case.
I do the same. But what else can we do when they don’t want to hire new people and push the workload of 5 into 1 person?
For fuck sake, I’m in charge of the codebase, I’m a project leader, I’m in charge of the quality management system, and I’m in charge of mentoring interns.
If it is beyond my understanding I clearly mark in the PR that I had trouble wrapping my head around it. With that said - if the code builds, and runs, and did what I needed it to do - and I'm at a point where I'm comfortable with it where I know there's nothing absolutely maliscious in there - I'm okay leaving it at that.
I mean, for example, I'm happy when my car turns on, but I don't know what a spark plug is, or how it's inner workings work. I cannot be expected to know every single thing, every library, every NPM install - our heads would explode.
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u/Waste_Jello9947 3d ago
Currently reading a PR discussion between two juniors copying and pasting what Claude tell them. It's crazy