Doesn't sound like AI is necessarily the root the problem. If he's not the person to test, iterate, and deliver quality with AI, he probably wouldn't be without it. You just figured it out sooner.

Or, if you have reason to believe he's got what it takes - treat it like an leaving opportunity, give him room to make mistakes. This is, ime, what a rookie AI user mistake looks like.

It is easy to get carried away by the momentum. Many have fallen into that trap, not all are irredeemably bad software engineers.

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greggoB an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> If he's not the person to test, iterate, and deliver quality with AI, he probably wouldn't be without it

I see the take quite often on HN, and I have a major gripe with it. Yes, people were lazy and we had these problems before LLMs hit the scene, but clearly there has been a sea-change in both the frequency and degree of this behaviour since.

A problem can both exist independent of a catalyst and be exacerbated by it. Arguments that try to window-dress this away are not particularly productive.

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hombre_fatal 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Well, I’d say LLMs scale up the underlying starting point.

It’s still shocking to me pre-AI how often people would ship code they didn’t bother to run once, relying on some QA stage to report an issue.

With AI the solution to it is also trivial since an extra three seconds spent writing a prompt could have had the agent run and verify it.

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p2detar 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the argument is quite valid. OP writes "business partner". It begs the question - would their business partner get on board if they didn't have a AI subscription by their side? How about instead of 5K PR, OP got the same half-baked buggy crap or absolutely nothing instead? We don't know the business partner, but we are ready to throw the problem at AI agents right away. Well, I find this not particularly productive.

	▲	yhcj 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		we started this project before was mainstream (we got sidetracked by other work) and him having less experience but being a very good programmer (I went with him to college and worked together for years), he would listen to my input, fix, and adjust. I have decades of experience. This is all but gone

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Valodim 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

*learning opportunity. Damn autotype

	▲	the8472 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There is a certain irony blaming the autotype rather than the lack of review...