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submitted 1 week ago by VibeCoder@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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My work is requiring me to start using AI so I did an exploration this weekend.

I was blown away by how quickly I was able to get a working app. Full social media clone complete with persistence, video and audio playback, auth, realtime updates, and image uploads in about half an hour. I was then horrified by the quality of the code and how little I understood what the code was doing. I 10x’ed my speed, but in return debugging and editing was 100x harder and more time consuming.

I was also attempting to learn React Native and took note of how little debugging using the AI helped me actually learn the platform I was working with. I ended up abandoning the AI in favor of just learning directly.

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[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We’re using a company-provided subscription, so they can see our stats. They’re requiring we use it as a trial to see how much it improves productivity. And they specifically said they don’t want us to come to the end of the trial with no feedback because we didn’t like using it.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ridiculous, sounds like a half assed management ploy to cut down on labor costs. It is now your duty to burn through all the tokens they paid for and declare it to be shit even if it was somewhat useful.

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It came directly from the board, yeah. Unfortunately, some of my colleagues have indeed found some pretty good uses for doing things like generating certain boilerplate that’s pretty common in our codebase. I don’t think I have a chance of convincing anyone it’s not useful. Just trying to document what it is useless for so I don’t bother with it.