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by zknill 60 days ago
AI generated code, where the author doesn't understand the code, shifts the burden of checking quality and function onto the reviewer.

This post says little about that, and suggests some improvements the _reviewer_ can make.

I think that's completely the wrong end of the stick to be tackling. As the burden is still on the reviewer and not the author.

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I 100% agree with you that in a perfect world the submitter should be doing the review work. But the reality is that we don't live in a perfect world - and just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting it's not our job isn't going to make data breaches less common or code better quality. Accordingly, if we accept that we can't make vibe coders better stewards (although I absolutely do think we can help in that regard, and I suggest ways to do that in the post), then we have to do our part of improve it somehow.