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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by pton_xd on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:16PM (#43536711)
> I have friends who write a lot of this code for tasks like data analysis for retail and "vibe coding" isn't that crazy in such a domain.

That sort of makes sense, but then again... if you run some analysis code and it spits out a few plots, how do you know what you're looking at is correct if you have no idea what the code is doing?

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by kibwen on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:15PM (#43537346)
> how do you know what you're looking at is correct if you have no idea what the code is doing?

Does it reaffirm the biases of the one who signs my paychecks? If so, then the code is correct.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by AlexandrB on Monday March 31, 2025 @02:24PM (#43538069)
Lol, that's definitely a factor. Actually plotting is the perfect example because python is really popular in the space and matplotlib sucks so much. While an analyst may not understand Python very well, they often understand the data itself through either previous projects or through other analysis tools. It's kind of like vibe coding a UI for a backend that's hand built.
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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by usui on Monday March 31, 2025 @02:14PM (#43537964)
LOL thanks for the laughs. But yes seriously though, most kinds of data analysis jobs several rungs down the ladder where the result is not in a critical path amount to reaffirming what upper people believe. Don't rock the boat.
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