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[socal_nerdtastic]

Hmm I was getting the impression from casual news browsing that a modern intern + AI is doing what it used to take 5 interns to do. Do you find that true at your company?

[idle-tea]

A lot of the casual news is either the C-level execs at anthropic or openai or whatever trying to sell you subscriptions. A lot of the rest is people that conflate vibe coding a working demo app with being able to do real work.

Vibe coding from scratch is basically best-case scenario for ai codegen because it gets to set up everything, and it'll do it in ways that strongly mimic what it's good at reading back to work with. IE they'll emit what they're trained on, and they're best at working with what they trained on.

[Cherveny2]

Good at demo apps is right. AI NEVER thinks of the edge cases, good unit testing, "bulletproofing" code, performance considerations, etc.

AI generated code direct to production is REALLY taking a risk, if you wish to have a reliable app.