AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust

There's been a strong theme recently here on HN of confusing programming (the act of writing code to meet specifications) and Engineering(the writing of specifications, and the oversight of said process, along with overview of testing).

AI is definitely not ready for an Engineering role. My recent experience with ChatGPT5(Preview) via Visual Studio Code tells me that it might perform acceptably as a junior programmer. However, because I'm an old retired self taught programmer who only ever managed 1 other programmer, I lack the experience to know what's acceptable as a Junior Programmer at FAANG and elsewhere.

No offense but your experience with AI is fairly primitive if that's where you're at.

Please elaborate.

Share what you built and how you prompted and what you are making from it, and how many tokens you paid to rummage through.

you can't proclaim any sort of knowledge about AI's currently capabilities by opening up a codebase and typing a couple prompts into the vscode agent.