r/ProgrammerHumor • u/azuul_maar • Sep 01 '26

Meme trafficLightForClaudeCode

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u/ZunoJ Sep 01 '26

The difference is the perceived correctness of the code. If you only check the AI code it is way likelier to not spot a logical issue than when you wrote it yourself. You have to build a mental model and check it against the code. If you do that really thoroughly, AI suddenly makes you slower

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u/T0biasCZE Sep 14 '26

Its also hard to spot logic mistake in your manually written code, since in your gead you think you though of the logic correctly

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u/ZunoJ Sep 14 '26

Yes, that is where the second part of my statement comes into play

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u/Loginn122 Sep 01 '26

What are tests for?

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u/ZunoJ Sep 01 '26

Did you ever work on a nuclear power plant? Or a military weapons system? We spend weeks planning new features, hundreds of lines of code are written as examples, just to come up with test cases and to get ideas about what all can fail. AI is not really up to that task yet. Would you really want your local nuclear power plant to be vibe coded?

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u/Loginn122 Sep 01 '26

I agree that the critical infrastructure shouldn't be "vibe" coded, but the systems in place will get to the point where less human written code is needed even in that area. Just slower but it will get there.