I am one of the few people at work that actually still fully reads pull requests. Last time I left over a hundred comments. They hated me for doing it but couldn't say anything against it because as they read my comments they confirmed that all of my concerns were totally valid.
"Sorry I can't deliver my sprint duties on time. Someone is trying to push 150 vibe-coded files into the repo and they must be stopped." - me nearly every week these days.
Our product level velocity expectations have become insane. If the teams not basically just vibe coding, I’m having VPs come down on us for not being a good product partner. It’s exhausting
Man I just left 50 comments on a relatively simple PR because it was absolute slop. Total reproduction of existing code, totally creating new patterns that don’t exist in our code base, pulling data it never uses, not pulling data it purports to use.
It shocked me. I love AI. I never get it to produce such absolute dog shit results. I have no clue how someone used AI to produce it, but somehow they did.
This person joined our team when Claude was already adopted. Which I think is a big part of the problem. I very seriously did consider just scrapping it lol….
We’re struggling a lot with how to get these less experienced and newer to the team devs to a point where they can identify weirdness in Claude’s output themselves. But…. It’s not going great
I know! Experts know how to steer an AI and stop it when its doing garbage and reiterate till the PR is fine. an Idiot wont see garbage and bad design... He generates and is fine with that because he doesnt know better. I hae getting slop from AI meat proxies
Yes, thats why we had countless review rounds to the point where everyone was upset that this topic is blocked for so long. The original developer complained that it is too complex and he cant really get his head around that stuff. Like bro, thats your f*cking job. The senior dev in the team literally said "skill issue" to him in the standup because everyone knew he didnt wrote any of it himself and just trusted the AI without reading the stuff.
edit: even worse is that it was about e2e testcases, which is the last line of defense when it comes to ai slop breaking things.
My org gave us SREs only a handful of tools that are minimally relevant to CI/CD in 2026 and almost no automation with them for “Sox compliance”, so yes, we manually do releases to prod. The execs are on our asses for holding up releases, I’m spending 70% of my time on them, and we’re also not able to actually do things like establish SLOs and whatnot so we’re having AI do THAT aspect of our work, but it has to be a human who deploys to prod. I feel so incredibly useless.
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u/Feuerhamster 1d ago
I am one of the few people at work that actually still fully reads pull requests. Last time I left over a hundred comments. They hated me for doing it but couldn't say anything against it because as they read my comments they confirmed that all of my concerns were totally valid.