[CapsAdmin]

I'm not anti-AI but something I've been thinking about is the discipline it requires. As you said, it's a tool that allows you to rename a variable name on one end and do complete vibe coding on the other end. Developers may say that we should stay somewhere left on that spectrum, because that's where human's are more involved.

But developers also say good practices should be followed when talking to each other, and while some may do, reality is often very different.

It requires discipline, which varies a lot between developers, between projects, current mood, and so on.

In the beginning you might be careful doing small changes, but after a while you might get more tempted to accept the output for what it is, because ultimately that's much easier.

So the way I see it; the left side is harder work and potentially bigger but delayed dopamine hits, the right side is quick dopamine hits. How do we (at least those who struggle with discipline) resist just slipping to the right?

I started out carefully myself and slipped more into vibe coding, but I don't feel particularly proud of it for some reason.

[Daishiman]

> It requires discipline, which varies a lot between developers, between projects, current mood, and so on.

In the beginning you might be careful doing small changes, but after a while you might get more tempted to accept the output for what it is, because ultimately that's much easier.

Counterpoint: how is this any different from how things were pre-LLMs? I have seen, in the same codebase, some throughly well-written and tested PRs that read like Shakespeare and some of the laziest slop that even no LLM would ever write because humans have an unlimited capacity for laziness.

You catch the bad stuff through oversight, process, automated and manual checks, and the ultimate threat that your job depends on your ability to deliver so you better allocate at least enough energy into this so that you can ship moderately working code.