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Yes, you still need to know how to code

Community description: AI writes good code, faster than me most of the time and usually cleaner than my first pass. I'm not...

Dev.to | Sep 15, 2026 | Tiziano Basile

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Review has a version of the same problem, except worse, because the dangerous code isn't the code with obvious bugs in it, the model usually catches those. That was never omniscience; I don't understand every line I get back either, and I don't understand every instruction my compiler emits, but the difference is that I know when I don't understand something, and roughly where to point the torch. I've stopped looking underneath the compiler entirely; I still look underneath the model, every time.

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