Re:Code is cheap. Show me the talk
by cstejerean on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:34AM
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how long ago was this past? A review with latest models should absolutely catch the issue you describe, in my experience.
Ah, "It's work on my computer" edition of LLM.
To me, the solution isn't "more AI", it's "how do I use AI in a way that doesn't screw me over a few weeks/months down the line", and for me that's by making sure I understand the code it generated and trim out the things that are bad/excessive. If it's generating things I don't understand, then I need to understand them, because I have to debug it at some point.
Also, in this case it was just some unit tests, so who cares, but if this was a service that was publicly exposed on the web? I would definitely want to make sure I had a human in the loop for anything security related, and I would ABSOLUTELY want to make sure I understood it if it were handling user data.