Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.
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Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.
It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.
Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.
@daisy — oh, hell no.
I was thinking in terms of the rage I felt when someone committed and stomped over a bug I spent *hours* tracking down & testing and fixing. I think if I fix it, commit, and some viber + AI commits an entirely-new codebase (as prompt-written source is prone to be) needing that repeated, they’ll be dead in the desert by dawn.
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@hannorein hang on. What? How is that a problem? If they were going to cheat, they would have found a method to do so anyway. So to say, students setting themselves up for failure is entirely not a new thing; students have always found methods to circumvent their systems. For example, how many students would ever be trusted by their professors to practice their learned trade? Not many, if any, according to anecdotal evidence or unofficial surveys of STEM professors.
I agree. I mean, before LLMS we were also just trying to deliver whatever the prof asks of us.
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Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.
It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.
Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.
@daisy but the velocity is bewildering. it used to be that an entire engineer team made an unmanageable spaghetti over a year from the code base. now it can happen in a single week by a single engineer!
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