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I have never seen an AI generated code which is correct. Not once. I've certainly seen it broadly correct and used it for the gist of something. But normally it fucks something up - imports, dependencies, logic, API calls, or a combination of all them.
I sure as hell wouldn't trust to use it without reviewing it thoroughly. And anyone stupid enough to use it blindly through "vibe" programming deserves everything they get. And most likely that will be a massive bill and code which is horribly broken in some serious and subtle way.
I've seen and used AI for snippets of code and it's pretty decent at that.
With my colleagues I always compare it to a battery powered drill. It's very powerful and can make shit a lot easier. But you'd not try to build furniture from scratch with only a battery powered drill.
You need the knowledge to use it - and also saws, screws, the proper bits for those screws and so on and so forth.
How is it not correct if the code successfully does the very thing that was prompted?
F.ex. in my company we don’t have any real programmers but have built handful of useful tools (approx. 400-1600 LOC, mainly Python) to do some data analysis, regex stuff to cleanup some output files, index some files and analyze/check their contents for certain mistakes, dashboards to display certain data, etc.
Of course the apps may not have been perfect after the very first prompt, or even compiled, but after iterating an error or two, and explaining an edge case or two, they’ve started to perform flawlessly, saving tons of work hours per week. So how is this not useful? If the code creates results that are correct, doesn’t that make the app itself technically ”correct” too, albeit likely not nearly as optimized as equivalent human code would be.
If the code doesn't compile, or is badly mangled, or uses the wrong APIs / imports or forgets something really important then it's broken. I can use AI to inform my opinion and sometimes makes use of what it outputs but critically I know how to program and I know how to spot good and bad code.
I can't speak for how you use it, but if you don't have any real programmers and you're iterating until something works then you could be producing junk and not know it. Maybe it doesn't matter in your case if its a bunch for throwaway scripts and helpers but if you have actual code in production where money, lives, reputation, safety or security are at risk then it absolutely does.
It's not bad for your use case but going beyond that without issues and actual developpers to fix the vibe code is not yet possible for llms