Kyrylo SilinWhen I was an intern, I sent some code to a senior developer for review. He asked me about it in person, and I said, “I don’t know - I just copied it from Stack Overflow.”
He replied: “You can’t code like that.”
That stuck with me.
Now it’s 2026, and this behavior is normalized, just with better tools. I asked three different LLMs the same question about Ruby code:
> Verify this claim:
> Time.parse is not reliable for ISO 8601 strings that come from JavaScript’s toISOString().
Two said the claim was false. One said it was “common.”
Same prompt. Different answers.
That’s not a foundation you can build on. If you don’t understand the code you ship, you’re effectively gambling with your system.
