alt Hacker NewsIt’s a new form of development. The thing that the author didn’t state is that to work the code base at all, you must also use these tools and workflows.
Manual edits literally aren’t possible. You can’t grok the code growth and the new patterns fast enough to be productive.
This does work. I’ve seen it in real products. Nobody has a real mental model of the code flows. But with enough money in Claude credits it doesn’t matter.
The spend to support this development model is something like $50/day/developer.
I don't understand what anything you're saying has to do with what I said. My claim is that "groking the code" is not a binary, and you can balance between full vibe mode without ever reading it and requiring that you understand every single line, with the corollary that it's at least plausible that being on the far end of the spectrum where you never read it isn't safe to assume is the global optimum, and your rebuttal seems to be "well it's not the global minimum".