Code Room
Vibe codingHardvc-g287
Subject Ai refactor migrationLevel Senior–Staff~28 minCommon in Distributed systems · Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development, Technology

Question

Leadership wants to extract the 'notifications' domain out of a Rails monolith into its own service, and proposes having an AI agent move the relevant classes and wire up an HTTP client where the in-process calls used to be. As the senior on the project, what's wrong with treating this as a code-move, and how do you scope the work and verify behavior is preserved?

What a strong answer looks like

Treat the AI’s output as a draft to verify, not an answer to trust. Name the specific flaw and the input that triggers it, say how you’d catch it — tests, edge cases, reading critically — and how you’d re-prompt or decompose to get it right.

Describe your solution

Vibe coding: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach. Generating runnable code from your description is coming next.

Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.