Yeahhhhhh I've been to enough code reviews / PR reviews to know this will result in 100 opinions about what color the drapes should be and what a catastrophe we've vibe coded for ourselves. If I shoot something to GH I'll highlight it for others, but nothing yet. I can appreciate this makes me look like I'm shilling.
It makes usable code for my projects. It often gets into the weeds and makes weird tesseracts of nonsense that I need to discover, tear down, and re-prompt it to not do that again.
It's cheap or free to try. It saves me time, particularly in languages I am not used to daily driving. Funnily enough, I get madder when I have it write ts/py/sql code since I'm most conversant in those, but for fringe stuff that I find tedious like AWS config and tests -- it mostly just works.
Will it rot my brain? Maybe? If this thing turns me from an engineer to a PM, well, I'll have nobody to blame but myself as I irritate other engineers and demand they fibonacci-size underdefined jira tix. :D
I think there's going to be a lot of momentum in this direction in the coming year. I'm fortunate that my clients embrace this stuff and we all look for the same hallucinations in the codebase and shut them down and laugh together, but I worry that I'm not exactly justifying my rate by being an LLM babysitter.
