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I’ve had this experience as well where it is finding all kinds of subtle bugs. The trouble is when it lulls you into checking its work a little less carefully and you let some of its bugs slip through as well. Definitely had a few of those happen to me at work.

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The problem is also that enticement thing it does. Over representing the importance of some bugs or introducing more complexity to squash something that doesn’t matter.

If you aren’t 100% on it the entire time it’ll make 4 bugs for each solution and then write tests that hand hold the nonsense through. The juice isn’t always worth the squeeze and it messes with your ability to parse it all.

...and at some point you wish you hadn't looked at the code at all, then you could have the blissful ignorance and optimism of a vibe coder.

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