Either you're not relying as much on the AI as you think you are, or you're not really sure what "production quality" means.
It seems like you should know, so I'm going to bet that you're not entirely letting the AI drive.
Having the AI draft some code which you refine is a fine workflow. I didn't think it was before, but i've come around on that. I think it's also nice to have an LLM do a onceover to point out areas where I may have missed catching an error (like with JSON.parse in javascript or something.)
It's just not my cup of tea, personally. I've found that I'm faster writing code myself and treating an LLM as an assistant or rubber duck, but to each their own.
I'm referring to wholly AI generated code with no human input besides a prompt or "vibe coding." You literally can't put enough context into a prompt to have it write the exact code you'd need in every case. Your prompt would end up just being code at that point.
That's the whole point of writing code. Precise and exact instructions for a machine. You're not going to get that by adding a statistical natural language layer in the mix.
It seems like you should know, so I'm going to bet that you're not entirely letting the AI drive.
Having the AI draft some code which you refine is a fine workflow. I didn't think it was before, but i've come around on that. I think it's also nice to have an LLM do a onceover to point out areas where I may have missed catching an error (like with JSON.parse in javascript or something.)
It's just not my cup of tea, personally. I've found that I'm faster writing code myself and treating an LLM as an assistant or rubber duck, but to each their own.
I'm referring to wholly AI generated code with no human input besides a prompt or "vibe coding." You literally can't put enough context into a prompt to have it write the exact code you'd need in every case. Your prompt would end up just being code at that point.
That's the whole point of writing code. Precise and exact instructions for a machine. You're not going to get that by adding a statistical natural language layer in the mix.