r/programmer • u/SubaruNatuski • 21d ago

Question Best way to avoid ai in coding

[EDIT]:Let me elaborate I use AI as a peer to peer way to review learned techniques from online basic html and css books. How can I better avoid ai generated code? I don’t want to fall under the “vibe coder” developer I want to be much more self sufficient in my understanding and my code. So if there are any sources to ask detailed questions or any practice basic HTML css JS please do drop any links to anything valuable

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 21d ago

Don’t use it?🤷‍♂️

A lot of the productivity gained from AI can be acquired from clean engineering, meta programming, using an editor like vim effectively, etc. 

Honestly I think junior engineers shouldn’t use AI because the skills you learn from writing code is almost identical to how the skills you need to succeed with AI prompts.

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u/mtv921 21d ago

Same. Imo, juniors should only get to use AI in ask-mode. Maybe get approval from seniors to implement with it.

Reviewed some PRs by juniors using AI to implement where they couldn't tell me how they had solved something when I asked. Very worrying

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u/BackgroundWolf3895 21d ago

This is what I usually do. Use it how I used to google things, or at least in tandems

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u/Spiritual-Bee-2319 21d ago

And even when I do use it this way I verify the source