Seriously. I've known for a very long time that our community has a serious problem with binary thinking, but AI has done more to reinforce that than anything I can think of in modern memory. Nearly every discussion I get into about AI is dead out of the gate because at least one person in the conversation has a binary view that it's either handwritten or vibe coded. They have an insanely difficult time imagining anything in the middle.

Vibe coding is the extreme end of using AI, while handwriting is the extreme end of not using AI. The optimal spot is somewhere in the middle. Where exactly that spot is, I think is still up for debate. But the debate is not progressed in any way by latching on to the extremes and assuming that they are the only options.

  > AI assisted development isn't all or nothing.
  > We as a group and as individuals need to figure out the right blend of AI and human.

This is what makes current LLM debate very much like the strong typing debate about 15-20 years ago.

"We as a group need to figure out the right blend of strong static and weak dynamic typing."

One can look around and see where that old discussion brought us. In my opinion, nowhere, things are same as they were.

So, where will LLM-assisted coding bring us? By rhyming it with the static types, I see no other variants than "nowhere."

I'm only writing 5-10% of my own code at this point. The AI tools are good, it just seems like people that don't like them expect them to be 100% automatic with no hand holding.

Like people in here complaining about how poor the tests are... but did they start another agent to review the tests? Did they take that and iterate on the tests with multiple agents?

I can attest that the first pass of testing can often be shit. That's why you iterate.