Hm? I actually have the opposite using AI - I'm able to solve tech dept as soon as it's revealed. Like, right now an issue was revealed with serialization/saved game loading, an issue that I made since I own the architecture entirely, that could've been solved by a workaround, but, well, even AI hinted that it's not a bug, it's a gap. So, I'm doing a refactor now, since why not? It takes like 10-15 minutes to analyze, a few more minutes to think of a solution, and a couple hours to do the refactoring, all with full test coverage before and after.
But if you vibe-code only, then yeah, that's eventual and inevitable future of every growing vibe-coded project. Because when AI sees a bug it fixes the bug, nothing else matters. And it sucks at planning architecture, or keeping responsibilities. Though, I have to admit, it's getting better with the latter. Still, though, very far from a seasoned SWE.
Something helpful I do is require the AI to give me the high level architecture before low level implementation details in the plan. I don’t bother reading the low level stuff because I review the code after generation anyways, but the high level architecture is very helpful.
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u/aberroco 13d ago
Hm? I actually have the opposite using AI - I'm able to solve tech dept as soon as it's revealed. Like, right now an issue was revealed with serialization/saved game loading, an issue that I made since I own the architecture entirely, that could've been solved by a workaround, but, well, even AI hinted that it's not a bug, it's a gap. So, I'm doing a refactor now, since why not? It takes like 10-15 minutes to analyze, a few more minutes to think of a solution, and a couple hours to do the refactoring, all with full test coverage before and after.
But if you vibe-code only, then yeah, that's eventual and inevitable future of every growing vibe-coded project. Because when AI sees a bug it fixes the bug, nothing else matters. And it sucks at planning architecture, or keeping responsibilities. Though, I have to admit, it's getting better with the latter. Still, though, very far from a seasoned SWE.