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airstrikeyesterday at 4:48 PM1 replyview on HN

vibing is different from... steering AI as it goes so it doesn't make fundamentally bad decisions


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0xbadcafebeeyesterday at 7:06 PM

Both of these are not really the right way to use AI to code with. There are two basic ways to code with AI that work:

1. Autocomplete. Pretty simple; you only accept auto-completes you actually want, as you manually write code.

2. Software engineering design and implementation workflow. The AI makes a plan, with tasks. It commits those plans to files. It starts sub-agents to tackle the tasks. The subagents create tests to validate the code, then writes code to pass the tests. The subagents finish their tasks, and the AI agent does a review of the work to see if it's accurate. Multiple passes find more bugs and fix them in a loop, until there is nothing left to fix.

I'm amazed that nobody thinks the latter is a real thing that works, when Claude fucking Code has been produced this way for like 6 months. There's tens of thousands of people using this completely vibe-coded software. It's not a hoax.

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