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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
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I have never seen an AI generated code which is correct. Not once. I've certainly seen it broadly correct and used it for the gist of something. But normally it fucks something up - imports, dependencies, logic, API calls, or a combination of all them.
I sure as hell wouldn't trust to use it without reviewing it thoroughly. And anyone stupid enough to use it blindly through "vibe" programming deserves everything they get. And most likely that will be a massive bill and code which is horribly broken in some serious and subtle way.
To add on to what others have said, vibe coding is ushering in a new golden age for black hat hackers. If someone is rely entirely on AI to generate code they likely don't understand what the code they have is actually doing. This tends to lead to an app that works correctly for what the prompted specified but behaves badly the instant it has to handle anything outside of the prompt, like a malformed request or data outside the prompted parameters. As a result these apps tend to be easy to exploit by malicious actors, often in ways the original prompter never thought of.
I think this is what will kill vibe coding, but not before there's significant damage done. Junior developers will be let go and senior devs will be told they have to use these tools instead and to be twice as efficient. At some point enough major companies will have had data breaches through AI-generated code that they all go back to using people, but there will be tons of vulnerable code everywhere. And letting Cursor touch your codebase for a year, even with oversight, will make it really tricky to find all the places it subtly fucked up.