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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That’s exactly it and why I can’t take this article very seriously.

Just because AI is writing some code doesn’t mean it gets credit as the developer. A human still puts their name beside it. They get all the credit and all the responsibility.

A piece of code I struggled with for days and some vibe-coded slop look identical in a PR.

And for that reason we can be certain that tons and tons of FOSS projects are using it. And the maintainers might not even know it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The credit should go to the author on stack exchange.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well there's a huge difference between "slop" and actually fine code.

As long as the domain space isn't super esoteric, and the framework is fairly mature, most LLMs will generate not half bad results, enough to get you 90% of the way there.

But then that last 10% of refining amd cleaning up the code, fixing formatting issues, tweaking names, etc is what seperates the slop for them "you can't even tell an AI helped with this" code

I have projects that prolly a good 5% to 10% of the code is AI generated, but you'd never know cuz I still did a second pass over it to sanity check and make sure its good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

100%

I took some code and scripts I wrote and passed them through AI. A lot of it was tightened up, and even better, it added comments and turned some things into functions so they were reusable.

I parsed everything it did to sanity check it. Really, use it like a junior developer. "Hey helper, write me a piece of code that does X." You always double check the junior.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A piece of code I struggled with for days and some vibe-coded slop look identical in a PR.

TBF that doesn't say much for your coding.

Just because people use generated slop, that doesn't mean "AI" exists, much less that it's making valuable contributions beyond summarizing/plagarizing Stackexchange.