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by constantcrying 422 days ago
These seem to be terrible reasons to give up on using AI, although they might be valid reason to stop using AI a certain way.

You can use AI in different ways, it is extremely good as documentations. Often to understand how a library works you want a specific example, getting that example and having an AI answer questions about particulars has been very valuable to me and often saved me meaningless wandering through other parts of the documentation or the Internet as a whole.

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"Vibe coding" is a very certain way to use LLMs (one where you treat code the same way a junior Java SWE reads generated JVM bytecode), which is what the OP is about. They agree with your point.

    There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.
    ...
    I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it.
I know. I was commenting about how giving up on that kind of methodology should not mean that you should not be using AI for software development at all.