Yes because I didn’t check to see if Claude code used a for loop instead of a while loop? Or that it didn’t use my preferred GOF pattern and didn’t use what I read in “Clean Code”?
Guess what? I also stopped caring how registers are used and counting clock cycles in my assembly language code like it’s the 80s and I’m still programming on a 1Mhz 65C02
My last project was basically an ETL implementation on AWS starting with an empty AWS account and a internal web admin site that had 10 pages. I am yada yada yadaing over a little bit.
What I checked.
1. The bash shell scripts I had it write as my integration test suite
2. To make sure it wasn’t loading the files into Postgres the naive way -loading the file from S3 and doing bulk inserts instead of using the AWS extension that lets it load directly from S3. It’s the differ xe between taking 20 minutes and 20 seconds.
3. I had strict concurrency and failure recovery requirements. I made sure it was done the right way.
4. Various security, logging, log retention requirements
What I didn’t look at - a line of the code for the web admin site. I used AWS Cognito for authentication and checked to make sure that unauthorized users couldn’t use the website. Even that didn’t require looking at the code - I had automated tests that tested all of the endpoints.
Yes because I didn’t check to see if Claude code used a for loop instead of a while loop? Or that it didn’t use my preferred GOF pattern and didn’t use what I read in “Clean Code”?
Guess what? I also stopped caring how registers are used and counting clock cycles in my assembly language code like it’s the 80s and I’m still programming on a 1Mhz 65C02
I can see the argument both ways. Some code is just not worth looking at...
But do you look at any of the AI output? Or is it just "it works, ship it"?
My last project was basically an ETL implementation on AWS starting with an empty AWS account and a internal web admin site that had 10 pages. I am yada yada yadaing over a little bit.
What I checked.
1. The bash shell scripts I had it write as my integration test suite
2. To make sure it wasn’t loading the files into Postgres the naive way -loading the file from S3 and doing bulk inserts instead of using the AWS extension that lets it load directly from S3. It’s the differ xe between taking 20 minutes and 20 seconds.
3. I had strict concurrency and failure recovery requirements. I made sure it was done the right way.
4. Various security, logging, log retention requirements
What I didn’t look at - a line of the code for the web admin site. I used AWS Cognito for authentication and checked to make sure that unauthorized users couldn’t use the website. Even that didn’t require looking at the code - I had automated tests that tested all of the endpoints.