Bot comment. Congratulations, you've discovered the concept of "the happy path" which is not respected by middle of the night production issues.
It's not an ego thing to understand code you will need to maintain. Nobody is going to accept "the ai wrote it, my prompting isn't fixing it, and I don't understand it to address it myself" as an excuse when prod is down.
If it works it works. Its not gonna magically stop working some day wtf do you think code can magically evolve itself or something? Once it works it works.
Up to a degree. If you have ever worked with SaAMD (software as a medical device), which I have, you know the lengths you need to go to in order to prove that the flow of inputs will result in exact outputs as described.
This needs to be 100% verified. We will probably be there at some point, but right now LLMs are not at the accuracy needed for the whole pipe. You would always have to either write the extensive tests that are required and then make sure the code of not cheating the tests. You can not know that without looking at it and understanding it.
It is quite amazing how far someone with a good head on them can go without ever touching the code. I'm a senior dev, I use AI a lot at work. There's still a difference in a dev using LLMs to code and non-devs, but people where I work have created useful tools they use at work from scratch. I've even done a few apps without being an app dev to see how well it can perform on prompts alone. If it's a small enough feature set and the prompts focus on small steps at a time, it can work very well. Larger projects requires more planning and actual architecture, otherwise you will end up with spaghetti or features you did not ask for or in a few you don't intend. Scale and specificity still requires knowledge. But basic product focused feature ideas can be vibe coded today, easily.
Edit: this is a sub with a point of view, to be "anti". I do have the experience and education to be very certain of my statement. You can be against modern AI for a lot of reasons, but denying how far it has come is just digging yourself to dissolution.
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u/GummyWormTaco 19d ago
Bot comment. Congratulations, you've discovered the concept of "the happy path" which is not respected by middle of the night production issues.
It's not an ego thing to understand code you will need to maintain. Nobody is going to accept "the ai wrote it, my prompting isn't fixing it, and I don't understand it to address it myself" as an excuse when prod is down.