Vibecoding was bad. But now, AI-assisted coding seems...fine?
Nothing sparks more heated discussions than asking coders about best practices. The other day, someone I follow on LinkedIn shared his weekend AI experiment to build an app. As usual, "passionate" coders threw virtual stones, saying he didn't follow the right approach, engineering practices, or the latest spec workflow.
To turn the conversation around, he asked for our unpopular opinions about AI-assisted coding.
To avoid burying mine in a comment, here they are:
#1. Use AI as a calculator.
