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by davydm 234 days ago
I found the same thing, so I don't bother with ai-gen code AT ALL. I found that the time wasted fixing up the slop was not worth it - it's more efficient to code it yourself, as shown by studies (eg referred to here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vibe-coding-myth-when-feeling...).

No, your vibe-coding is not more productive, unless your only metrics for productivity are commit counts, PR counts, deployment counts. I can commit, PR and deploy crap all day long and "score well" - and this is what people are clinging to with their ai-gen defenses. I'm really sorry to inform you that your experienced "speed-up" is just a trick of the brain (remembering from an article written, iirc, by Gurwinder, but I'm having trouble finding it now) - you're actually going slower, and your brain is tricking you into thinking it's faster because whilst the ai was "coding", you didn't have to, so it feels like more of a win than it actually is, considering the results.