Seeing university teachers swallow the bait hook line and sinker, when they haven’t worked in the industry for like thirty years is kinda depressing. I was attending my work apprentice oral presentation and his teacher is just head over heel in love with AI. I gave a really shitty legacy piece of code for my student to migrate to modern code and the teacher was like “you could have just given it to Claude”.
Dude I need future colleagues who have enough brain power, not monkeys who can press buttons and panic when the magic box stays silent.

I just shut the hell up because I wanted my lad to get a good mark, but holy shit that lecturer is infuriating.

whether or not code works is not the only factor in determining whether or not the code is actually any good.

it is a critical factor, but not the only.

Not only should code work, but HOW it works and WHY it works must also be understood for those inevitable scenarios when it malfunctions OR when refactors and adjustments must be made to adapt to changing production conditions.

When it comes to “vibed” code, no sapient being was involved with its creation, nor knows its internal mechanics.

And if you simply ask a chatbot to figure it out for you, gods only know what it’ll hallucinate without comprehending anything and say, with what sounds like impeccable confidence, that “it works”. if it manages to fool you with a one-off ‘demo’ scenario and you ship that code, only for it to proverbially self destruct on contact with any actual tasking…

…congratulations. you played yourself.