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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

imo paying devs to review vibe coded bile would not work either. At best, the dev themselves should do the vibe coding.

Someone who has no clue whatsoever in terms of programming cannot give it the right prompt.

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[–] jayemar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah, this is my nightmare scenario. Code reviews are always the worst part of a programming gig, and they must get exponentially worse when the junior devs can crank out 100s of lines of code per commit with an LLM.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Also, LLMs are essentially designed to produce code that will pass a code review. It's output that is designed to look as realistic as possible. So, not only do you have to look through the code for flaws, any error is basically "camouflaged".

With a junior dev, sometimes their lack of experience is visible in the code. You can tell what to look at more closely based on where it looks like they're out of their comfort zone. Whereas an LLM is always 100% in its comfort zone, but has no clue what it's actually doing.

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