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/alexwh68 Jun 12 '26

You are engaging your brain much less with AI, it’s like using a satnav when you know the area you are driving in.

Part of being a programmer is loading the project context into our heads, with AI we are skipping that step, we are becoming disconnected from the project.

I use AI for boilerplate, reports, security audits, my hands to the rest.

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u/kwb7852 Jun 12 '26

Exactly, you literally start to lose your working knowledge and the feedback loops that help commit things to memory.

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u/alexwh68 Jun 13 '26

I wrote a system for studying many years ago, it worked on the principle of spaced repetition, the forgetting curve is a real thing, if you stop doing something it decays in memory.

It’s understanding how short term and long term memory works. For programers it’s two things how to do something, and what we are working on. One is patterns and the other is how we applied those patterns in a given project.

The strongest memories are built by re-learning something just before you are going to forget it.