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AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant

decided to finally give vibe coding a try. I’ve barely written any code since I hired developers at Puppet in like 2009.

After a while, I concluded that it wasn’t very good at the back end code – I have a lot of experience with modeling and data flow, and I kept finding dumb things it did. This is the kind of stuff an experienced programmer does without thinking, but a crappy consultant whose entire experience is based on trawling Stack Overflow probably never figures it out. I can spend ten minutes staring at my files and pulling my hair out, or get an answer back in thirty seconds.

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