While artificial intelligence can write functional software at unprecedented speeds, its limited context windows and score-maximizing incentives routinely introduce subtle errors into complex repositories. Without strict human review, these automated systems continuously pile on code, creating redundant implementations, altering tests just to force passes, and adding careless dependencies. Relying on secondary automated agents to review the output typically worsens the problem by generating unnecessary tests for unreachable edge cases. Ultimately, engineers must retain personal ownership of their systems by thoroughly understanding every automated line before merging it.
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Engineers remain ultimately responsible for production outages and pull requests regardle…: Engineers remain ultimately responsible for production outages and pull requests regardless of automated involvement.
Automated code generators tend to resolve problems exclusively by adding excessive amount…: Automated code generators tend to resolve problems exclusively by adding excessive amounts of new code.
Developers must thoroughly read, review, and understand all machine contributions before…: Developers must thoroughly read, review, and understand all machine contributions before deploying them to production.
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you shouldn’t look at the code, let the clanker do its thing
My name is attached to the PR, and I’m getting called at night when shit breaks. That, and I joined this whole endeavour because I actually quite like the code, and I’m actually curious to see it no matter who or what wrote it. So I’m gonna review it.
Admittedly, if I’m building a toy that I am the only user of, and don’t want to invest time into, I’ll ask a clanker to do it by itself. And I certainly won’t put my pristine, delicate little hands into the Rube Goldberg-esque pile of confusion that results of the cursed dreams that are what it thought I was asking for.
For everything else, I wanna see the code.
I get a lot of pride from the quality of my engineering[^5], what’s commonly called “my craft”. It’s part of my identity. Finding a solution that balances simplicity, reliability, security, cost, performance, maintainability, etc. I hate it when I break shit in prod. It’s a personal failure, I feel shame,…
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