BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Using AI for coding
De:       Dr. What
Data:     Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:05:00 -0500
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-=> Dumas Walker wrote to ALL <=-

 DW> Is anyone using an AI product for coding with any success?

It's mixed for me.

Code reviews: AI does a very good job of pointing out the "gotchas" of memory
leaks, etc.

Unit test generation: AI did a good job in my latest attempt, but it took as
long as I would have taken to generate the same unit tests.  So a wash there.

Eric S. Raymond has had very good luck running old C code through an AI to find
bugs and improvements.

The who idea of "vibe coding" is going the way of CASE tools back in the early
1990's.
But, I think that AI would do a good job of code generation if you were clear
about WHAT code you wanted it to write.  Ex: "Generate a routine to merge these
2 complex lists of items."

But "Write me an app do to xxx" will always fail big time.

It's important to remember that AI is not "Artificial Intelligence" today. 
It's an LLM.  So it's really not much more than a lot of "If X then Y" rules
and it can infer from "If Y then Z" that "If X then Z".

So it's closer to an automated code generating Stack Overflow.


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