Another frustrating thing that has emerged from this is where managers “vibe code” half-baked ideas for a couple of hours and then hand it off as if they’ve meaningfully contributed to the implementation. Suddenly you’re expected to reverse engineer incoherent prompts, inconsistent code, and random abstractions that nobody fully understands.
replyIn their mind they’ve already done the “architectural heavy lifting” and accelerated the team. More often than not it just adds cognitive overhead where you spend more time deciphering and cleaning up garbage than actually building the thing properly from scratch.
I am lucky to have never worked in a team where my manager wouldn't expect strong push back in this scenario. Many of the corporate environments described on here seem dystopian, this included.
replyVouching for this comment because my friend confided in me a week ago that her manager also does this and is like “oh yeah, here’s 80% done, you just do the rest so we can ship it” when a large part of it is slop that needs to be rewritten, due to not enough guidance and pushback during generation.
replyThat’s when you ask it to write tests to a good coverage, and then have it reimplement everything with the tests still passing…
replyUnless the tests are written against logic that is in of itself subtly wrong and even the structure of code and what methods there are is wrong - so even your unit tests would have to be rewritten because the units are structured badly.
replyIt’s a valid direction to look in, it just doesn’t address the root issue of throwing slop across the wall and also having unrealistic expectations due to not knowing any better.
Yep. It’s very healthy to be suspicious of code. Any code. Whether generated or not. That’s where the bugs are.
replyIf there’s one thing that’s disturbing with AI proponent is how trusting they are of code. One change in the business domain and most of the code may have turn from useful to actively harmful. Which you have to rewrite. Good luck doing that well if you’re not really familiar with the code.