Question
Your team needs to implement the tax-withholding calculation for payroll across several jurisdictions — gnarly, rule-heavy logic with legal consequences if it's wrong. A teammate suggests just having the agent write the whole thing from the statutes. Would you reach for an AI assistant here, and if so for what exactly? What failure modes make it the wrong tool for parts of this?
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.