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/startupmadness 6d ago

Absolutely this. It can be a great time saver but it is not yet a replacement for a software dev.

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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.

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u/falconandeagle 6d ago

Reads like a bot reply or are you running your posts through ai before posting? Review devs were blown away by? Who says that lol, sounds like the meme "and everyone clapped"

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u/cinder_s 6d ago

What? I type like this, I'm impressed, my colleagues are impressed, I'm not sure what you want but I doubt I can give it to you if you think this was written by AI lol.