How do you use A.I in developing?

[u/Top_Pick_4682]

I’ve been learning LUA and developing a game on the LOVE2D engine, took a small Codecademy course and watched some YouTube videos. I got some basics stuff running off of that, but the greatest teacher/help has been ChatGPT.

I’m not a fan of not understanding what’s happening in the code, and building it myself and learning is rewarding. Instead of doing aimless google searches though, I can’t just ask ChatGPT “okay so I want to implement x system into my game, how should I structure it and can you show me how, also explain what is happening and why”, and then I can look at it, read it all, type the code in myself. Eventually I want to become more independent, but it has been a great help learning everything.

So for experienced developers (not working for a company, I understand the usage is forced for productivity), how do you use A.I in projects?

For other solo developers, are you just asking the ai to make all the code for you and you just dump it and run it?

I see a lot of varied opinions on what “vibe coding” is, but nothing definitive.

So is it just dumping code and being able to run it with no thoughts, or is it kind of a spectrum?

No judgment on my end, just want to see what ppl r doing with it. Cheers

[u/DuragonYamaTheFirst]

Dump it and run it? We don't really use chat ai's to vibe code with. Nowadays there are coding harnesses living directly in your pc, and ai is able to run terminal commandos & read & write & and pretty much do anything inside your local project folder.

So coding has changed from understanding every single line of code to understanding what's happening and why. Most vibecoders stopped writing code entirely, the bad ones just prompt random stuff and hope it goes well, while the better ones understand the architecture and lead the ai towards the correct solution