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deatontoday at 8:07 PM1 replyview on HN

It almost seems like the juice might not be worth the squeeze. If you want verifiable code that conforms well to a well-designed plan, you have to basically write pseudocode and have the AI translate it for you. At that point why use the AI to write the code at all? And then, personally, I find that I just have more fun planning, writing, and debugging myself. I think its kinda the part of programming that I fell in love with in the first place.


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pydrytoday at 8:52 PM

This is the core of the insanity nobody who vibe codes seems to be able to grasp.

It's not even that its more fun, AI can spew endless slop boilerplate but it simply can't handle boiling an application down to its component essence in a way that makes it straightforward to maintain and bug free.