# AI Coding Feels Like Using an Unreliable Compiler

DevFeed: [AI Coding Feels Like Using an Unreliable Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-coding-feels-like-using-an-unreliable-compiler-20743.md>)

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Author: Federico Tomassetti

Published: 2026-05-19T13:17:09Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Federico Tomassetti](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/federico-tomassetti.md>)

Topics: [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-coding.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-coding.md>), [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [language-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language-engineering.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [reflections](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reflections.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>), [verification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verification.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that current LLMs used for coding resemble unreliable compilers: their transformation of developer intent into code is not sufficiently faithful, repeatable, or reliable to trust without verification. Developers must inspect, understand, test, and often correct generated code, shifting the bottleneck from writing code to reviewing it.

## Source excerpt

AI Coding Feels Like Using an Unreliable Compiler Every developer I know is asking roughly the same questions about LLMs. Yes, there are LLM-fanatics and LLM-skeptics, but most are LLM-confused: sometimes LLMs seem amazing and sometimes they seem so dumb one wonders why we are using them in the first place. So we keep asking [...] The post AI Coding Feels Like Using an Unreliable Compiler appeared first on Federico Tomassetti.