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I will, often go back, after the fact, and ask for refactors and documentation.
It works. Probably a lot slower than using agents, but I test every step, and it is a lot faster than I would do it, unassisted.
..but unintentional AI (aka Modern Chaos Monkey) is so much more fun!
Good content tho!
Because of the way that I use AI, I am constantly looking at the code. I usually leave it alone, if I can; even if I don't really like it. I will, often go back, after the fact, and ask for refactors and documentation. It works. Probably a lot slower than using agents, but I test every step, and it is a lot faster than I would do it, unassisted.
Because of the way that I use AI, I am constantly looking at the code. I usually leave it alone, if I can; even if I don't really like it. I will, often go back, after the fact, and ask for refactors and documentation. It works. Probably a lot slower than using agents, but I test every step, and it is a lot faster than I would do it, unassisted.
I don't think testing the product alone is good enough, because when you give it tests it has to pass it prioritizes passing them at the expense of everything else — including code quality. I've seen it pull in random variables, break semantic functions, etc.
I use a test harness, and step through the code, look at debug logs, and abuse the code, as much as possible.
Kind of a pain, but I find unit tests are a bit of a "false hope" kind of thing: https://littlegreenviper.com/testing-harness-vs-unit/
I've seen a lot of people talking about how AI is making codebases worse. I reject that, people are making codebases worse by not being intentional about how their AI writes code. This is my take on how to not write slop.
Agreed. When you submit code you must take responsibility for its quality. Blaming AI for low quality code is like blaming hammers for giant holes in the drywall. If you don't know how to use AI tools without confidence that your code is high quality, you need to re-assess how you use those tools. I'm not saying AI tools are bad. They're great. But the prevalence of people pushing the tools beyond their limits is not…
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Shouldn't all of this be implicit from the codebase? Why do I have to write a file telling it these things?
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Shouldn't all of this be implicit from the codebase? Why do I have to write a file telling it these things?
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