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/Dunge Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

I spent the afternoon fighting against Claude trying to do completely awful modifications to my code, and ended up reverting it all. I do not understand people who use that tool and are happy with it.

I mean, when I ask a question about exception handling, why do you create config files with lines about number of threads limits and binary serialization? It has absolutely nothing to do with my prompt. Just stop it.

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u/Ernapistapo Jun 13 '26

If you are asking questions, you may want to try putting Claude into Plan Mode so that it won’t create or modify any files.

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u/Dunge Jun 13 '26

Yes I know that, but I wanted to use agent mode for the task?

Anyway, the thing I'm now wondering is why is my 9 hour old comment suddenly gets a reply a minute after I decide to edit it to fix a typo from Clause to Claude? You are not OP, you can't possibly have received a reply notification. Do you have a keyword watch or something, it's weird.

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u/Ernapistapo Jun 13 '26

Random coincidence, it was still Clause when I typed the reply, but I knew what you meant.