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short_sells_pootoday at 3:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

I'd absolutely want to review every single line of code made by a junior dev because their code quality is going to be atrocious. Just like with AI output.

Sure, you can go ahead and just stick your head in the sand and pretend all that detail doesn't exist, look only at the tests and the very high level structure. But, 2 years later you have an absolutely unmaintainable mess where the only solution is to nuke it from orbit and start from scratch, because not even AI models are able to untangle it.

I feel like there are really two camps of AI users: those who don't care about code quality and implementation, only intent. And those who care about both. And for the former camp, it's usually not because they are particularly pedantic personalities, but because they have to care about it. "Move fast and break things" webapps can easily be vibe coded without too much worry, but there are many systems which cannot. If you are personally responsible, in monetary and/or legal aspects, you cannot blame the AI for landing you in trouble, just as much as a carpenter cannot blame his hammer for doing a shit job.