I now understand what artists felt when seeing stable diffusion images - AI code is often just wrong - not in the moral sense, but it contains tons of bugs, weirdness, excess and peculiarities you'd never be happy to see in a real code base. Often getting rid of all of this, takes comparable amount of time as doing the job in the first place.

Now I can always switch to a different model, increase the context, prompt better etc. but I still feel that actual good quality AI code is just out of arms reach, or when something clicks, and the AI magically starts producing exactly what I want, that magic doesn't last.

Like with stable diffusion, people who don't care as much or aren't knowledgeable enough to know better, just don't get what's wrong with this.

A week ago, I received a bug ticket claiming one of the internal libs i wrote didn't work. I checked out the reporter's code, which was full of weird issues (like the debugger not working and the typescript being full of red squiggles), and my lib crashed somewhere in the middle, in some esoteric minified js.

When I asked the guy who wrote it what's going on, he admitted he vibe coded the entire project.