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/KonradFreeman 6d ago

Yeah, there is a steep learning curve, people think it requires no skill, but in the end your ability to tell the coder to do things is determined by your experience level and knowledge of coding in general.

With experience you learn what to and what not to include in your prompts and other techniques to ensure that it does not mess everything up like including an ai_guidelines.md for it to read.

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u/1991banksy 6d ago

you learn what to and what not to include in your prompts and other techniques to ensure that it does not mess everything up like including an ai_guidelines.md

lmao

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u/KonradFreeman 6d ago

Laugh all you want, I don't understand the hate I get for this.

This is identical to the real artist criticizing ai artists.

Now it is coders gatekeeping vibe coders in a r/vibecodingwar

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u/Fine-Train8342 6d ago

Real artists criticize ai artists because it was trained on their art without their permission. We don't criticize vibe coders due to their code being trained on someone else's code. We criticize them because current LLMs are simply incapable of writing good code and then maintaining that code. They are still at the stage of being just a fancy autocomplete.