> I haven't touched a line of code in over 6 months, didn't even look at it, but the work I do is faster and higher quality than ever.

Well that doesn't make sense if you are writing code that is going to be used on critical infrastructure.

Imagine a disaster were to happen and you said to the auditors that "I don't know what I am doing nor did I look at the code" and you cost the company tens of millions of dollars.

Sure if your building toys, that's fine, otherwise, why take the risk in being liable for not looking at what the code does and then believing it is high quality?

Don't you see the contraction you just did there?

Indeed, I am just building apps people use, they are not "critical infrastructure" and the world won't end if there's a small bug, I don't vibe code self driving cars, defense systems or medical devices. A

If there is a bug, it will be fixed quickly anyway, so only a few users might ever see it, or see it only for a brief time.

Even when manually coding, projects still have issues and bugs, I don't think much changes in that aspect now, if anything, there are fewer bugs now in most high quality apps than before, due to AI catching more issues. See all the vulnerabilities found in old core code and libraries nowadays, that humans didn't find.

There’s a huge gulf between toys and critical infrastructure.

LLMs write better code than humans with fewer bugs. They also do it much much faster so you can spend all the remaining time testing. Tests are written faster too so not only you have more time for testing but also you can use it better.

>>Sure if your building toys, that's fine, otherwise, why take the risk in being liable for not looking at what the code does and then believing it is high quality?

>>Don't you see the contraction you just did there?

I wouldn't trust anyone who refuse to use LLMs for programming. Their code is worse, they test it less and it takes longer to write. For me "no LLMs" attitude is a sign of incompetence. Good for hobbyist trying to keep their brain active but that's about it.

That is even more so for critical infrastructure. Just look at the mess human coding is when it comes to security. LLMs are fixing it at the pace we couldn't even imagine a year or so ago.

"didn't even look at it" is a giveaway of the OP being a liability on top of a boaster and the company who employs him deserves to go out in flames

Wonder if he tells his boss to "I pushed critical code to production without even taking a look at it" or is it just for show on HN