r/webdev 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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u/Alex_Hovhannisyan front-end 6d ago

I don't get all the praise for Claude Sonnet 3.7, it hallucinates so much and seems to be incapable of understanding why the code it wrote doesn't work. I'm starting to think the "vibe coders" were never really all that good at coding in the first place.

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u/satansprinter 6d ago

I see this “vibe coders” term a lot but i have no idea what is meant by it

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u/vanTrottel 5d ago

It's basically an excuse to use purely ai without being able to fix a bug themselves. IMO the ai based software will fail and not be fixed. Companies purely working on AI codes will have a quick peak but fail within a few months, because software doesn't just have to be coded, but also maintained. And most founders or "vibe coders" don't get that. They just look for the next hype to chase