I also do. One unique important thing that agents rob you of is time with your code - you don't get to craft it so you remember just as well as you would have if you copied answers for a test.

[–] w33n1s@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's an excellent point. With my larger personal projects, which I have to put away for weeks at a time due to my (not-at-all-programming) job, I can come back and (more or less) dive right back in because I used patterns and organizational structures familiar to me. And if I'm digging into a particular thing, I can eventually remember all the trials and tribulations that went into the decisions I made to get to that point.

With AI code you get none of that, like you said. I can't imagine not knowing or understanding why something works the way it does, and releasing it, with my name on it, for others to use.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Student: “Hey, thanks for the Bash script! It didn't know you could use the mapfile built-in to populate an array using standard input lines without a while loop. mapfile -t my_array < <(seq 1 10) is really handy!”

Vibe coding guru: “I have no idea what you're talking about. That sounds like plumbing. You should let AI handle those details. Focus on the big picture.”

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 0 points 22 hours ago

All of the software I use is broken to shit. If major corps can release broken shit software to waste my time all day then seems like shipping broken code is actually the norm. So if it works then you are one step ahead regardless if you use ai or not.

Also, as a pro artist (and you all are similar), no one gives a fucking shit about the tools or software or how much blood you spilled (or didn’t) making what you made as long as they can use it.