I’ve had to rewrite practically everything the AI generated for me, despite using a frontier model dialed up to 11 thinking levels
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In the thread “Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?”, replying to this comment
Helped: PR review, security analysis, typo hunting, reverse engineering.
Got in the way: Generated code quality was useless, requiring complete rewrites.
… I just spent a week scrubbing a codebase where some dev “did the needful” and committed an on-by-default flag to bypass authentication checks because he didn’t known how to set up his local work environment. People report the same “took a shortcut” issue with AI vibe coding, and I can confirm that I’ve had to rewrite practically everything the AI generated for me, despite using a frontier model dialed up to 11 thinking levels. Having said that, AI is very useful for other activities like PR review, security vulnerability analysis, typo hunting, reverse engineering, etc. …