Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling of "loss of control" with AI coding?

A developer on Hacker News expresses unease about using AI coding tools, feeling a loss of control and confidence as LLMs generate code faster than they can review it, despite maintaining architectural oversight. The post highlights a psychological challenge in balancing AI-assisted development with manual code review.

I have to admit that newest models and harness tools have gotten really good and produce working code really fast with even mediocre prompts "wish programming". The problem is more on my side than the LLM side. I feel I am 1 losing control of my project, even my hobby ones, because LLM outputs code so fast that I am 2 too lazy to manually review all of them, even if, indeed, I had the overall architecture design choices and sometimes straight up pseudo-code in natural language. But NL is, by definition, not formal, and programming is the process of expanding informal demands into formal languages. It is still fundamentally different from abstraction like importing a lib as in software engineering as a means to reduce complexity. The result is that not-going-into-nitty-gritty-impl-details builds the feeling of loss-of-control and -confidence. This may not read as a coherent submission since it's just my random unsettling thoughts, but I am sure at least some of you fellow HNers feel felt? the same. What is your take on this? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542239 Points: 2 Comments: 0