According to the author's intention, it is the code that he cannot understand or control. Even if the solution provided by the AI works, he will not adopt it. This is unless he can understand or control it. This should be an assumption.

However, if AI provides a solution, as the person using AI, one should conduct research before making a decision. This is not in conflict with or hindered by the use of the ideas provided by AI.

I will say--as someone who has fielded late night troubleshooting calls--I totally understand OP's point of view. It's reasonable to expect that you will be able to answer questions about something that you ship, or brainstorm ways to solve a problem a customer is encountering while using something you provided them.

The obvious counterargument is "well, just ask the AI for those answers," but the AI lacks the context and experience that you have. Sometimes, genuinely, the user really is just "holding it wrong," but none of the current AI models would ever admit that, and you'd spend hours trying to solve an unsolvable problem.

I think this policy is probably more prescriptive than I would go with myself. I like to think of my risk tolerance first to help make that determination.

For example, I use a vibecoded internal tool written in Go. I don’t even know how to write Go. Haven’t read a single line of the code. I just wanted to move from bash scripts to using cloud SDKs for performance reasons.

But the internal tool is a convenience tool, and you can do everything it does using alternative methods. So if it break, there is no real negative impact besides personal convenience of anyone using it. There’s some documentation on how to do everything manually if needed.

Here’s another example: you’re making a static website. No JavaScript, no interactivity. Truly, what could go wrong? And while I do understand HTML a lot better than Go, it wouldn’t really matter if I didn’t.

If I'm on call solving a problem another engineer caused and I reach out to them for clarification and they say 'I don't know, the AI wrote it' I am going to advocate for them being fired tomorrow.