Comment by DrBazza
12 hours ago
Most of the other replies to this hit the nail on the head.
A human writing some poor, but working code that is supposed to be a demo, goes to production 9 times out of 10.
Then it becomes critical infrastructure.
Then management cannot understand why something working needs a rewrite because there's no tangible numbers attached to it. The timeless classic developer problem.
We were here ^^^^ up to 2024-2025.
Now, with LLMs, you can at least come up with a vibe coded, likely correct, likely faster, solution in a morning, that management won't moan at you about.
I don’t know where you got “likely correct” from. Likely working? Sure. Likely correct? Absolutely not.
LLMs will only ever be as good as an average programmer, and average programmers usually get stuff wrong.
> LLMs will only ever be as good as an average programmer
What do you base this claim on?
> average programmers usually get stuff wrong.
All programmers get stuff wrong.
Except if you’ve only spent a morning on it, no one has verified any of it, and it almost definitely has more bugs and technical debt than the original solution.
They might be different bugs and technical debt than the original, so it might take you long enough to run into them that the engineer who did it can take the credit for solving the original problem without taking the blame for the new ones.
> that management won't moan at you about.
That seems unlikely.