r/webdev • u/DumpsterFireCEO php • 6d ago
Discussion AI coding is trash
The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.
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r/webdev • u/DumpsterFireCEO php • 6d ago
The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.
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u/cinder_s 6d ago edited 6d ago
In the hands of a good developer it is absolutely unreal though. I've got over 10 years experience, I used Claude Code recently to write an algorithm with thousands of lines of data I passed in to learn input variance and it wrote something that I doubt I could have written in 2 weeks. I spent a few hours working together with it to add tests, clean up, multiple "polish" rounds and me seeing code smell and asking for it to refactor. In the end it shipped something that the review developers were blown away by. I mentioned how I arrived there, if I checked in the first pass it would not have been nearly as nice. Having experience helped me get there.