[cc62cf4a4f20]

After spending some time vibe coding, I think this article is pretty accurate in that it aligns with a) how poor AI agents work in practice and b) the fact that non-coders are expecting magic from AI (which to be fair is what the AI companies are promising with all of their hype).

Where I have found vibe coding as an approach really shine is if I need to write some sort of quick utility to get a task done. Something that might take an hour or more to slap together to solve some menial task that I need to do on a bunch of files. Here I can definitely throw it together quicker than manually and don't care if it is messy code.

Larger, more complicated apps that are meant for production are painful to try to get AI tools to build. Spend so much time prompting the AI to get the task done without breaking something else that I doubt I'm any faster than just hand coding it alongside a co-pilot

[LoganDark]

Claude Code released a little while ago and I've been using it on a production codebase at work. It's really good at repetitive tasks like filling out JSON schemas, cloning boilerplate logic, and so on. It's also honestly not half bad at helping point me to the right locations when bugs can be found.

I find that it works best when used by an actual programmer who has a good idea of exactly what they want to do and how they want it done. I often find myself telling it extremely specific things like, add a switch case in this callback in this file. Add a command in this file after this other one. Create a new file in this directory that follows the convention of all the others. And so on. If you instruct it well, you can then tell it to repeat what it just did for every item in a list that is like 20 items long and you will have saved hours of development time. Very rarely does it spit out fully functional code but it's very good at saving you the time it takes to constantly repeat yourself.

(This codebase isn't that good at DRY, I try my best with things like higher-order functions but there's only so much I can do, I still need to repeat myself in many cases.)

[godelski]

What do you mean cloning boiler plate logic? Don't you just write it once and then call the function? Need to change things? Okay do a little abstraction. But I thought a big part of coding was to reduce repetition