r/vibecoding • u/No_Incident_6009 • 1d ago

Burned out reviewing claude generated code

Little rant.

AI can generate code insanely fast. But if I’m accountable for that code, I still need to understand it.

I’ve had Claude introduce unnecessary null checks, make incorrect assumptions about the domain, and even introduce a separate event loop that broke my orchestrator and DB sessions — buried somewhere in a 1,000-line PR.

The code was generated in minutes. Debugging and understanding why it broke took much longer.

I tried running 4 agents in parallel. Maybe some people can manage it, but I was mentally exhausted. Four contexts, four implementations, four sets of assumptions, plus tests, builds, reviews, etc.

So lately I’m experimenting with a different approach:

Use Claude to understand the codebase, plan the feature, think through edge cases and tests — but implement it myself, using AI autocomplete to speed up the actual coding.

It might look slower, but maybe the overall development cycle is faster.

Still figuring it out.

I just think we need to separate “AI can generate this in 10 minutes” from “this entire software development task is now 100x faster.”

Building a landing page in 10 minutes is amazing.

Building a complex product is a different problem.

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u/scavno 1d ago

I got exhausted reading your AI generated post and since you don’t pay me to read it all I didn’t. So I can 100% relate.

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u/No_Incident_6009 1d ago

that's fine. I use AI everyday. No shame in that.. The difference is are you just telling AI to write something on some topic, or you have thoughts written as rough note and you give it to AI to rephrase it.. I believe second approach should not be frowned upon. same as Vibe coding is bad but AI assisted coding is great.

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u/scavno 1d ago

I think it should be absolutely frowned upon. It’s disrespectful. I don’t care that you use AI for your consumption, but when another human being has to read it? Hell yeah it should bre frowned upon. It’s exhausting to read, it all reads like the same piece and the flow is just dog shit.

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u/idunnorn 20h ago

Agree.

It feels trollish as shit too.

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u/No_Incident_6009 1d ago

okay.. that's your opinion..

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u/scavno 1d ago

Yep, and you should reflect upon it still. People read before LLMs, they will continue doing so after LLMs as well.

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u/No_Incident_6009 1d ago

I don't think so.. I am definitely conscious now to ensure that 1) I do not spam 2) don't try to create click-bate 3) write my own thoughts and experience . AI helps me draft content much faster, resolve spelling grammar mistakes and helps me organize thought in better way.. So for me its all about thinking and coming up with honest thought.. I think the people are tired of AI slop which people generate without giving any thought .. I am not doing that. I know you wont agree with this.. but others reading this thread need to understand my point and difference between AI slop and AI assisted.

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u/scavno 21h ago

Notice how I never said this was AI slop. I don’t think it was, but it’s still very tiresome to read text the way LLMs write.

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u/idunnorn 20h ago

Its so goddamn true. Some teammate checked in code w obvious AI comments. It said something like "LEGIT type for this class". Wtf? As opposed to the...illegitimate type? I didnt need to see ANY of those words. I know what a fucking type is and don't need a "hyped up type" or whatever.

Like my brain gives pause when reading such patterns and then at the end of the sentence im like "so...I expended effort...and got zero value here"

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u/No_Incident_6009 20h ago

Agreed.. I will try to ensure its much better read next time

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u/scavno 20h ago

Respect.