> Ahh yes the “you’re holding it wrong defense”

Tools have limitations and ideal uses. If you hammer a nail with a chisel, you're probably going to have a bad time. If you build a home and don't level the joists and studs, you're going to have a bad time. If you use an impact wrench on the wrong part you can cause enormous damage. And so on.

Yes, "holding it wrong" is a legitimate thing people can discuss. Similarly it's funny how often people want to talk about "vibe coding", when that is quite simply the opposite of what I am advocating, but it has become a fun slur.

> Now i ask what enormous extremely complicated projects…excuse me by projects we mean real production software with real scale

Every large project on the planet is using AI tooling now, so this sort of gatekeeping has gotten almost sad. Like there's another guy in here leaving some worthless troll comment and they literally created an account on here four months ago purely to run around shrieking and telling everyone that AI is useless and it's all a myth. The desperation is palpable.

Good large projects generally are the combination of hundreds to thousands of small, fairly defined and isolated sub-projects and modules and contained classes with well-defined entry-points, and so on. Using AI on projects like that, where the non-vibe developing, skilled developer is asking for concrete, audited changes on those modules, is hugely useful. It's far more of a crap shoot if you don't understand your own code base and broadly demand that it make cross-cutting changes.

I never said ai was not useful nor that it cannot be used on small parts. The issue is size.

I think you are projecting other people on to me with is counter productive.

Slop and vibe coding are valid. It is specifically for describing crappy ai output.

You still did not give specifics which is usually the case when pushed on. I will give you some, when there are well over 20 languages that span multiple applications which all can depend on one another in same way, bazel builds from hell. Ya ai cant do it.