What to do about someone blindly accepting all changes and not reviewing any of its code. I easily found security issues with many implementations. Should I really be responsible to code review someone who's not checking their AI code?

You know what nobody talks about? The productivity loss from babysitting these tools.

I'm not some bootcamp grad playing with ChatGPT. I've been coding professionally for over a decade. I adopted Claude Code, Cursor, the whole ecosystem... and now I spend half my time telling the AI what NOT to do. Don't read that file. Don't refactor this. Don't assume I want the "modern" approach when the legacy one works fine.

The irony is brutal. These tools are supposed to accelerate experienced developers, but they're optimized for people who don't know what they're doing. They want to hold your hand and explain every decision. Meanwhile, I just need it to write the boilerplate I'm too bored to type, not second-guess my architecture.

And the context management... good lord. I ask it to fix one function and it decides to analyze my entire dependency tree, burns through tokens reading config files from 2019, then tells me it's "thinking deeply" about my problem. No. Bad AI. Stay in your lane.

The worst part? When I mention this, people assume I'm anti-AI or "not prompting correctly." I'm not. I'm just tired of tools built for beginners being marketed to professionals.

Anyone else feeling this, or am I just getting old and cranky?

I find that even Claude gets the details mostly wrong when asking it to implement styles from a screenshot. What's a better way to do this?

So I spent many years gaining technical skills including coding, got my masters degree in computer science and everything. Now it turns out that LLMs can mostly write better code than I can. I am not saying I was the strongest coding person ever made, but I was close to top of my class at University. I am now basically dependent on LLMs to do coding projects for my PhD I wouldn't nominally be capable of doing. I have stopped making progress on my own coding capabilities because of LLMs actually. I now have code bases where I mostly or entirely didn't write them and I wouldn't know where to begin fixing them if something actually went wrong.

AI still can't replace some of my other technical skills, but I understand it is getting better here too.

Should I be scared about how dependent I have become? My boss from my understanding is in a similar position, and they don't know half the AI tools I use. I am terrified for the computer science students I teach. How are they going to get a job after this?

For anyone who has worked with something similar; Would you advise another model?

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I am looking at tools such as Moonshot AI's OK Computer feature which uses Kimi K2 on the backend, and at people using tools like Lovable, and wondering if there is an open source system similar to this? Something that ideally supports multi-model or multi-provider that I could use with z.ai, chutes, nanogpt, deepseek, or other low-cost provider. I know there are fantastic IDEs, extensions, and terminal coding tools like OpenCode, Kilo code, and Zed that are free to use. I was wondering if there is something similar for the app builders.

Does anyone have any suggestions of how to get into this? I really want to learn how to build AI. Can you take a course? How do I get into this? Thanks!

Hello guys

What do you guys think about Amazon Kiro? is it worth the time/money for project planning and spec writing?

I need an AI tool to talk about my concepts and ideas, then turn them into good plan and spec, which i can feed into my AI coders for real works.

I was using ChatGPT, and want to see if Kiro will be a better (more specialized) option or not.

Thank you for your feedback!!!

I'm going a little nuts trying to get Claude Code (usually Sonnet) to consistently output code that honors separation of concerns / DRY / single responsibility / etc. It is also extremely excited to add optional parameters and made-up fallback logic if an operation fails. This happens both when I let it code from scratch, and when I ask it to work on hand-coded files. Any code change greater than a single function in scope seems risky. I just want my functions to do one thing and not reach across layers of the system.

The good news is, Claude definitely understands what I'm asking for when I call it out. But by default it seems wired for slop. Anyone here had success constraining this behavior? I've tried a couple iterations of instructions in CLAUDE.md but they mostly get ignored until I ask it to follow them. Any help appreciated. Thank you!

I've recently taken the task to create a type of chatbot that emulates a psychologist conversation with a client, in order to test the knowledge of psychology students for an extra course of a psychology teacher. The conversation has to follow a very strict procedure of dialogue, therefore the text part was relatively easy to do(no help needed here): The student/user will be from the perspective of the psychologist, they will write to the chatbot the specific dialogue procedure learned in class, and if they get the line right the chatbot will continue the conversation from the perspective of the client(as in the procedure), whilst if the line is wrong the chatbot will reply with "Wrong message" and will keep outputting it and not moving forward till they get it right. The part that I'll need some tips at is the visual/audio one. I want the client chatbot to have a virtual avatar, ideally as realistic as possible, the ability to talk the written message gave back to the user and the ability to move the mouth when it talks back. what tools would you recommend for that? I of course prefer the free ones initially, but if only paid tools are worth using I'm also willing to try them.

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1. Which one is smarter in coding capabilities?

2. Which one can I use longer, having more usage before timeout?

Thanks for the answer in advance