BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Using AI for coding
De:       Dr. What
Data:     Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:34:00 -0500
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-=> Dumas Walker wrote to DR. WHAT <=-

 DW> OTOH, I am not a C programmer so I was getting something out of asking
 DW> the questions, even if I had to rephrase them sometimes.

Eric S. Raymond went over this on X today with an interesting view.

So say you need to convert a COBOL program to C.  You have the AI do it.  You
need to know enough C to verify that the conversion did what it's supposed to. 
AI's "hallucinate" (I call it "lie") wayyyy too much to blindly trust it's
output.

Which means you still need to know C, at least to a certain extent.

 > And then there's the whole "vibe coding" stuff that results in different
code
 > each time, making code reviews take much longer.

 DW> I have heard that term but need to read up about it.  As I usually hear
 DW> it in a derogatory reference, I have not been too rushed to learn more
 DW> about it.  ;)

It's the script kiddies of old going into ChatGPT and typing in a prompt to
have it build some software.

They compile, run, adjust their prompt, which generates completely new code,
that they compile, run, ...


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