And what if the foundation was made by the AI itself? What’s the excuse then?
E.g pumping out a ton of logic to convert one data structure to another. Like a poorly structured form with random form control names that don’t match to the DTO. Or single properties for each form control which are then individually plugged into the request DTO.
Must be my lucky day! Too bad my dream of being that while the bots are taking care of the coding is still sort of fiction.
I love a future when this is possible but what we have today is more of a proof of concept. A transformative leap is required for this technology before it can be as useful as advertised.
In my mind it’s not too much different than cheap contractor code that I already have to deal with on a regular basis…
theyre reasomable audit tools for finding issues, if you have ways to make sure they dont give up early, and you force them to output proof of what they did
A poor foundation is a design problem. Throw it away and start again.
It’s funny how the vibe coding story insists we shouldn’t look at the code details but when it’s pointed out the bots can’t deal with a “messy” (but validated) foundation, the story changes that we have to refactor that.