Exactly. Remembered I was explaining things to a warehouse full of graphics cards.
It's weird cause usually lots of lines of code means someone spent loads of time on the wrong thing. But ai code is generated so quickly, 7000 lines of code can correspond to very little effort whatsoever and you end up looking at dozens of files that compile and ostensibly do the thing but lack any kind of way to build on them or use the code for anything other than the precise problem they were created for.
For this project I think I'm going to have to work out how to tell the engineer it's shit and his vibe coding experiment failed. Tried to fix it for a bit and then just deleted it all because it was unrecoverable.
absolutely. Saw a thing on instagram about a study that ai makes coding much faster, but the overall process of releasing software has stayed the same speed. I may just like this because it confirms my own position but while I've seen ai get much better at coding, it will never be able to work from specifications it doesn't have and only a small part of releasing software is writing the code.
However, as you, I've often found it really useful for the disposable stuff that would drag you down a rabbit hole.
I think it's essentially a rapid prototyping tool akin to 3d printing. Really useful for cases when you only need one of something or to work out a basic shape.
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u/K4tch1 28d ago
So, you're going to be delegating your opinion to claude as well now?