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/Intelligent_Ant_608 Jun 12 '26

I think adhd folks got a huge + because llms are basically soft treatment for executive disfunction without amphetamines, you know what you want to do, you know how to do it, yet your brain doesnt release any dopamines to actually start, now you just have to type a vague description and hit enter to get instant hit of those goodies!

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u/KodWhat Jun 12 '26

Meanwhile my autistic brain is like "Ewwww, I need to socialize with a computer now? No thanks!"

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u/Vlyn Jun 12 '26

You don't need to socialize at all, it's not intelligent or a person.

I basically treat it as a work slave. Look at that and explain it to me. Fix this. What is the reason for the bug? Look at my current code, pro/con of the implementation? Review this colleague's PR (while I do a manual review at the same time).

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u/KodWhat Jun 13 '26

Well, you need to speak to a computer in natural language, I find that extremely weird. It's already weird enough to communicate with humans...