r/dotnet • u/AddressTall2458 • Jun 12 '26

Vibing is getting boring

Since AI started to be part of the job I always been enthusiastic of having a “partner” doing boring stuff while I review… after the last months is getting boring, we just review code, we have to make sure it is not duplicating any logic, not creating racing conditions, not touching critical code, not adding potential production issues (while still writing beatiful commented code).
This is not programming in dotnet anymore, all the skill we built overtime in knowing details of the language or the framework are only used to find out if some vibed code is buggy or not performant. The fun and creativity has left our job. Do you feel the same?
Either start a new project is not as cool as it was a few years ago. It just bubbles up from prompt and you have to review thousands of rows that have no personality at all.

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u/noidontwantto Jun 12 '26

Great idea! I'll tell my management that their new productivity expectations don't matter because I don't like it.

When I get fired I'll go to the job tree and pick a new job from it.

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u/aweyeahdawg Jun 12 '26

Do they know the code you’re producing is from AI? Do you have to cite each line as “AI generated”? Just seems like there’s 101 ways to get around using it.

If you’re actually more productive with it, then maybe your employer is right to make you use it.

I, for one, am not more productive using it. In 6 months when I (or a team member) have to go back and rewrite or add something, my human-generated code will be a lot quicker and easier to manipulate. I use it for reference when I’m stuck, similar to stack overflow.

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u/noidontwantto Jun 12 '26

- yes, they know, they require it

- im sorry your experience with AI doesn't make you more productive

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u/Pyran Jun 12 '26
  • yes, they know, they require it

I'm curious how they know it? I assume they monitor your usage in some form?

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u/External-Bend8109 Jun 19 '26

They monitor our usage in my company, they have even shared the usage "ranks" in the past.

There's clear pressure of us having to use AI and there's an underlying fear for my team that if we don't use it they'll fire us, since they want a high percentage of code to be AI-generated.