> People say AI is “good at front end”
I only say that because I'm a shit frontend dev. Honestly, I'm not that bad anymore, but I'm still shit, and the AI will probably generate better code than I will.
I only say that because I'm a shit frontend dev. Honestly, I'm not that bad anymore, but I'm still shit, and the AI will probably generate better code than I will.
Which is akin to driving a car - the motor vehicle itself doesn’t know where to go. It requires you to prompt via steering and braking etc, and then to review what is happening in response.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing - reviewing code ultimately matters most. As long as what is produced is more often than not correct and legible.. now this is a different issue for which there isn’t a consensus across software engineer’s.
It is therefore not important whether some intermediate version of that low-level code was completely impossible to understand.
It is not so with LLM-written high-level code. More often than not, it does need to be understood and maintained by someone or something.
These days, I mainly focus on two things in LLM code reviews:
1. Making sure unit tests have good coverage of expected behaviours.
2. Making sure the model is making sound architectural decisions, to avoid accumulating tech debt that'll need to be paid back later. It's very hard to check this with unit tests.