--- title: Is it important to understand all AI-written code... description: Discussion about "Is it important to understand all AI-written code entering your codebase?" on daily.dev - join the developer community canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/is-it-important-to-understand-all-ai-written-code-entering-your-codebase--bgolnbkah twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Is it important to understand all AI-written code entering your codebase? | daily.dev og:description: Discussion about "Is it important to understand all AI-written code entering your codebase?" on daily.dev - join the developer community og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-it-important-to-understand-all-ai-written-code-entering-your-codebase--bgolnbkah og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bgOLNbkaH.png og:image:alt: Is it important to understand all AI-written code entering your codebase? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is it important to understand all AI-written code entering your codebase? **[Agentic Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/agentic)** · [@kristian14](https://daily.dev/kristian14) · 4 upvotes · 4 comments ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@nikunjrohit** · 1 upvotes > If you don't aware of it then you are handling the black box. at some point you will not understand what is happening under the hood. **@kishanphani05** · 1 upvotes > True, that. There could be a minor changes which could take seconds by doing it manually than giving a prompt to AI, then it analyses then make updates. It could be a proper optimization of our tokens **@kristian14** · 0 upvotes > I see that most people want to understand at least critical parts of the code. > How do you guys approach massive AI generated PRs? Are you using AI to walk you trough? 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