{"slug": "unpopular-opinions-on-ai-assisted-coding-that-may-annoy-you", "title": "Unpopular Opinions on AI-Assisted Coding That May Annoy You", "summary": "A developer argues that AI-assisted coding is only useful for those who already know what they are doing, otherwise it remains a toy. The developer follows a rule: if they write code, AI reviews it; if AI generates it, they review it. Citing a Sonar survey, only 48% of respondents always check AI-generated code before committing, placing the developer in the top half by doing so.", "body_md": "Vibecoding was bad. But now, AI-assisted coding seems...fine?\n\nNothing 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.\n\nTo turn the conversation around, he asked for our unpopular opinions about AI-assisted coding.\n\nTo avoid burying mine in a comment, here they are:\n\nOnly useful if you know what you're doing. Otherwise, it's just a cool toy.\n\nThat's [my go-to rule for coding with AI](https://canro91.github.io/2025/10/14/AIRule).\n\nUnproductive? Maybe. But it forces me to decompose problems and validates AI-generated code.\n\nThis is my most recent rule:\n\n*If I write code, AI reviews it. If AI generates it, I review it.*\n\nAccording to [a recent Sonar survey](https://canro91.github.io/2026/02/06/AIStats), only 48% of respondents *always* check AI-assisted code before committing. *#yolo,* right? By reviewing, I'm already in the top 50%.\n\nYou trust it to steer, but you never take your hand off the wheel. Otherwise, AI could be a sloppy junior coder with bad memory.\n\nAI alone won't make you a great coder. It only amplifies the skills you already have. That's why I wrote ** Street-Smart Coding**—because you need more than syntax to stand out.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unpopular-opinions-on-ai-assisted-coding-that-may-annoy-you", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/canro91/unpopular-opinions-on-ai-assisted-coding-that-may-annoy-you-5d38", "published_at": "2026-06-15 05:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-15 05:11:02.491609+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Sonar"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unpopular-opinions-on-ai-assisted-coding-that-may-annoy-you", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unpopular-opinions-on-ai-assisted-coding-that-may-annoy-you.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unpopular-opinions-on-ai-assisted-coding-that-may-annoy-you.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unpopular-opinions-on-ai-assisted-coding-that-may-annoy-you.jsonld"}}