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by jqpabc123 298 days ago
"You don't want people vibe-coding these systems moving money,"

Why not?

He just inadvertently answered his own question as to why people resist using AI.

If AI is clearly not competent enough to trust for the "really important" stuff, what makes him think it is competent for other stuff?

His AI mandate is like forcing a team to hire cheap, incompetent coders with a language barrier --- and then blaming the team for the mistakes and lack of productivity.

Still a bad coder can "learn" to get better. Can AI do this? In the meantime, "fixing" bad code can be harder than writing good code --- and a lot less fun.

Next up --- let's just mandate the use of AI to fix AI's bad code. Problem solved?