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Because I wanted exactly this experience: can I get to the desired result — functionality-wise, if not code-wise! — even if I choose the stack that makes sense in terms of technology, not the one that I happen to be proficient in?

And if I cannot bring language-proficiency to the table — which of my capabilities as a seasoned software&systems guy can I put to use?

In the brown-field projects where my team and I have the AI implement whole features, the resulting code quality — under our sharp and experienced eyes — tends to end up just fine.

I think I need to make the differences between both examples more clear…

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necovek 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok, I guess you shouldn't complain that you really got exactly what you wanted.

However, your writing style implied that the result was somehow better because you were otherwise an experienced engineer.

Even your clarification in the post sits right below your statement how your experience made this very smooth, with no explanation that you were going to be happy with bad code as long as it works.

	▲	ManuelKiessling 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess we are slowly but steadily approaching splitting-hairs-territory, so not sure if this is still worth it… However. I‘m not quite sure where I complained. Certainly not in the post. And yes, I’m very convinced that the result turned out a lot better than it would have turned out if an unexperienced „vibe coder“ had tried to achieve the same end result. Actually pretty sure without my extensive and structured requirements and the guard rails, the AI coding session would have ended in a hot mess in the best case, and a non-functioning result in the worst case. I‘m 100% convinced that these two statements are true and relevant to the topic: That a) someone lacking my level of experience and expertise is simply not capable of producing a document like https://github.com/dx-tooling/platform-problem-monitoring-co... And that b) using said document as the basis for the agent-powered AI coding session had a significant impact on the process as well as the end result of the session.