The imminent risk of vibe coding (basta.substack.com)
from codeinabox@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 31 Jan 14:58
https://programming.dev/post/44972615

cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/895059

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Feyd@programming.dev on 31 Jan 15:23 next collapse

To paraphrase, “I’m seeing negative effects from using LLMs. For some reason I apparently think simply not using the tool producing negative effects is an option so I’m going to make a bunch of rules that amount to balancing out any supposed productivity gains with more human work and invest in even more slop tools”

Insane

jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip on 03 Feb 01:51 collapse

I am staunchly anti-AI, but the company I am working for unfortunately pushes AI tool adoption extremely aggressively. A lot of the things in the post are similar to sentiments I have. Specifically the sections around vibe coding offloading the burden of work to the reviewer and how to mitigate that by pushing back against those sorts of PRs.

I agree with you, though, that the post ignores the simplest solution of just not using AI tools. It may be the case that the author doesn’t have the ability to enforce that, but it should still definitely be listed as the first and most logical solution.

I’m at the point where I’m seriously considering creating a blocklist of certain engineers at work that spam out vibe coded trash PRs and informing my manager that I will not do code reviews for anyone on the list.

Feyd@programming.dev on 03 Feb 02:01 collapse

Yeah it increases my work when I’m responsible for quality. The most frustrating is when someone asks me for help because they’re stuck then hits me with a barrage of “chatgpt said xxx” complete nonsense while I’m trying to assess the situation

My company was pushing AI tools aggressively but people embarrassed themselves in chats with managers where I corrected them by actually knowing things enough they let off the gas. I wouldn’t be surprised if they still do to some degree but not with me in the room lol

jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip on 03 Feb 02:15 collapse

The most frustrating is when someone asks me for help because they’re stuck then hits me with a barrage of “chatgpt said xxx” complete nonsense while I’m trying to assess the situation

That is the absolute worst. I’ve even gotten “Because Claude said so” in response to code review comments asking why they made a certain design decision.

they let off the gas

Man, I’m so jealous. My company is too large for me to have any sway, and they just added AI tool adoption as one of the key performance indicators on our performance reviews. 😔

beirut_bootleg@programming.dev on 31 Jan 16:38 collapse

Isn’t there some other community for this blogslop? This is programming. That’s not.

codeinabox@programming.dev on 01 Feb 08:31 collapse

Good question. I have asked this very question programming.dev/post/45013854