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jhbadger • yesterday at 1:18 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think most people try the "extreme end" of vibe coding -- "Claude, write me an app to do X" once or twice and realize that doesn't really work -- to get it to work reliably you basically have to write a ROADMAP.md that details each step in a fair amount of detail -- pretty much the same work you'd have to do to hand a project off to a human intern.


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majormajor • yesterday at 3:26 AM

And if trying to knock out a whole app like that, you might rediscover why waterfall was abandoned a while ago for many sorts of endeavors along the way... :)

Winfred-zz • yesterday at 6:03 PM

>you basically have to write a ROADMAP.md that details each step

I agree that a ROADMAP.md is needed, but I just ask the LLM to write that. Doesn't everyone do that?