Dev self-own: casually pondering the codebase so the AI agent can't smell that I'm lost

tekbog · x · 2026-08-14

Developer tekbog jokes on X that he ponders the codebase in a deliberately nonchalant way, so the AI agent doesn't sniff out that he has no idea what he's doing.

Behind the joke is a new vibe-coding-era anxiety: when reviewing AI-generated code, humans now find themselves performing confidence in front of their agents.

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