[dartos]

> deploy thousands of lines of code to production without you needing to change a single thing.

I’m not saying this is impossible. I’m saying it leads to poor quality products. Deploying thousands of lines of code isn’t necessarily a good thing. Often it’s not.

> You can write a very precise spec in the prompt. Use formal language, or use a little DSL you invent on the spot, or say "it should do X and Y and account for Z and also try to cover other things if you realize there are more", etc. There's a lot you can do.

At this point, why use an LLM at all? Why introduce a black box? We can perfectly and tractably convert formal languages into machine code.

Things are never simpler when black boxes are involved…

These tools, again, are undoubtedly useful and sometimes (albeit inconsistently) magic.

But they’re not a silver bullet for making software.

I tried vibe coding literally yesterday, as I do every week or so. I used avvante.vim and code companion. I tried with gemma3 and Claude. It’s slow, boring,and I (someone with ADHD) lose all focus when the llm starts running.

The output is prototype quality always. It looks okay and mostly works correctly (granted I usually just make a todo list or a job board) but is obviously over complicated and bloated.

If you don’t care about quality or long term maintenance (like with a prototype or POC) then it’s fine.

[meowface]

Give it one more try with the latest Gemini 2.5 (not Gemma).