Comment by didibus

20 hours ago

> I don’t review files that much anymore

You don't review the code? Just test it works?

At work we’re encouraged to use AI, so I do. For me the one thing that works well is using it to write one off scripts that do stuff and would be a chore to write.

Usually in 2-3 prompts I can get a python or shell script that reads some file list somewhere, reads some json/csv elsewhere. Combines it in various ways and spits out some output to be ingested by some other pipeline.

I just test this code if it works it’s good.

Never in my life would I put this in a critical system though. When I review these files they are full of tiny errors that would blow up in spectacular manner if the input was slightly off somewhere.

It’s good for what it is. But I’m honestly afraid of production code being vibe coded by these tools.