Influx of ai slop in vex

I fully agree. I didn’t see your comment before I wrote my own would have saved me a lot of trouble lol. I always mention a personal anecdote in regards to this topic of discussion…

AI will never be able to make a bad coder good. AI will only ever make a good coder write code to the standard they usually write code at, but around 20x faster.

Story time :slight_smile:

In Push Back, my teammate claimed that he could code the entire robot/auton using Claude Code in approx. 20 minutes. When he did, he never actually compiled or tested it, and told all of us (in a very self-assured manner) that he had fully finished the auton code.
Meanwhile, I (lead programmer) architected the program and wrote the algorithm myself. I then used AI to only write the code, and never really left it to make any descisions on its own. Prettty much all I used Claude for was to save me the wrist pain of typing for 5 hours straight (although the algorithm was pretty long so i did that anyways lol).

My teammate’s code has 23 compilation errors and failed at Nationals.
My code executed decently well, and I was able to EXPLAIN how my code worked to the Judges.

(For context, this all happened the night before Nationals, and I stayed up till 5 am coding)

We won Think award, even though we placed dead last in the tournament.

PS. here is the code which got us Think Award at Nats and qualified us to Worlds: