Question
You're a strong application engineer with no networking background, and you ask an AI agent to write a C program that parses incoming packets from a raw socket for a telemetry collector. The code looks clean and runs against your test pcap. Given that this is a domain you genuinely don't understand, how much should you trust the result, and what's the honest move when you can't personally judge correctness?
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.
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.