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The math is just fine. Code reviews, even audit-level thorough ones, cost far less time than doing the actual coding.

But the problem never was typing in the actual code. The majority of coding is understanding the problem you’re trying to solve and figuring out a good solution. If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop. You can’t review your way out of it because a proper review still requires that level of understanding the problem. If you just let the AI do the typing for you, there’s very little to be gained there as the time spent typing is negligible.

AI may be good at building simple, boilerplate-level code. But that’s what we have junior developers for. Junior developers we need because they grow into medior and senior developers.

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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop.

No, for major projects, you start out with a plan. I may spend upwards of 2-3 hours just drafting a plan with the LLM, figuring out options, asking questions when it’s an area I don’t have top-familiarity with, crafting what the modules are going to look like. It’s not slop when you’re planning out what to do and what your end result is supposed to be.

We are not the same

People who talk this way have zero experience with actually using LLMs, especially coding models.

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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh so I didn’t vibe code a go program that I have no understanding of the language cause I knew what I wanted the program to do in the end. Got you I am now a go developer.
  
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  - p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    I didn’t just ask the ai to do something I new which library I wanted it to use and new what I wanted it to interface with and new exactly what I wanted it to do.
    
    I have no understanding of the language
    
    No shit… you don’t even have an understanding of the English language. No wonder the LLM didn’t understand you.
    
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r1veRRR@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This really depends on the project. For example, if you’re creating a CRUD web app for managing some kind of data, the main tough decisions involve system and data architecture. After that, most other work is straight forward menial work. It doesn’t take a genius to validate a gajillion text fields for a specific min and max length, map them to the correct field in the API, validate on the server again, and write them to the correct database field.

I agree that AI might screw companies over in the long run, when there’s no more juniors that can become seniors. That doesn’t apply to this case at all.

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