Posted by rzk 21 hours ago
Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hamie_im-an-engineer-at-m...
> I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we're going to spend our time checking each line of code, it's going to take forever. That means you can end up with systems you've built where you don't truly understand how all the code works. You understand the high level, but not every detail. And maybe this is becoming the new standard. It goes against every instinct of being a software engineer. I'm used to understanding what I'm building. Now I'm trying to figure out how much I need to understand before I'm comfortable moving forward. Are other engineers feeling this too?
How are you handling this?
quality is all we have, it’s what makes us different from these agents.
quality is perplexing to agents because it requires a strange loop into asking why. there’s not always a clear answer. but i think the power is in the ambiguity.
if we don’t know why (or don’t care) then what happens if we all adopt this attitude at scale?
Imagine the carnage if real engineers started vibe-designing bridges.
I think it's silly to make strong statements like this. _Most_ professional software engineers (women too, not just him!) are using LLMs and are moving some amount of faster as a result.