alt Hacker NewsI am constantly confused at work that people see AI as binary: it’s either a person writing the code and taking ownership of it, or it’s AI and the poor person has no control. It’s rather bespoke or entirely vibe coded. Why? When I use AI it’s still me writing the code, I just get better autocomplete and a tool that can verify my changes using fuzzy sentence as the linting rules. Why did so many people just immediately assumed that it all must be vibe coded now? Maybe it’s because everyone hates reviewing code they didn’t write?
I shouldn't have used the term "vibe-coded" as that's an extreme charicature. But I would argue in general heavy use of LLMs just does lead to sloppier code, and I think there's a general feel for that. Has AI use helped Microsoft make better software lately?
People live to benefit from AI for their own work, but are understandably uneasy about depending on code written by AI, even if it's (mostly) human reviewed. 2-3% more bugs may not seem like a big deal, but when you start building stacks of things these bugs bubble up and increase exponentially.