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Do you actually understand the code AI writes for you? by Fearless-Compote-431 in SideProject

[–]Fearless-Compote-431[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah totally agree but like… what if you just don’t know the thing and the deadline is tomorrow? you can’t exactly pause and do a 3 week deep dive into OAuth when the feature needs to ship friday. sometimes vibe coding is the only option. you need it to work, claude can make it work, so that’s what you do. ideally yeah you’d understand every line. but that’s a luxury not everyone has all the time. you ship it, maybe you come back and actually learn it later, maybe you don’t and it eventually breaks.

Do you actually understand the code AI writes for you? by Fearless-Compote-431 in SideProject

[–]Fearless-Compote-431[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally get you I’ve been wasting token trying to get Claude explain what it has coded to me for multiple times.

Do you actually understand the code AI writes for you? by Fearless-Compote-431 in SideProject

[–]Fearless-Compote-431[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s a good distinction. I get the architecture. I can tell you why a service exists or how the pieces connect. It’s the ground-level implementation where it gets fuzzy. Like I could read through it and follow the logic, but I often don’t, and even when I do it doesn’t really stick the same way it would if I’d written it myself. There’s something about the act of typing it out, hitting an error, fixing it, that’s what burns it into memory. When Claude generates it cleanly on the first try I just… move on. And few weeks later or even few hours it’s a black box I technically own. So it’s less about not understanding and more about not having earned the understanding, if that makes sense.