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Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?

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Post by hapticdata »

The effort and time that I invested in romanticizing writing code as an intellectual and poetic pursuit feels kinda silly now but still pays dividends. Now I get to explore lots of ideas or the scale of ideas that I previously wouldn't have and I find lots of joy in those moments but I've had to learn to give up on certain types of value systems and can get bored of the process of forever sharpening an arrow.

Re: Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?

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Post by PJHkorea »

In vibe coding, you must simultaneously address two things: tuning the AI and reviewing your own results.

You think it is easy because your ability to tune the AI is excellent, but in reality, you are intuitively and easily doing things that others cannot.

Re: Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?

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Post by rkochanowski »

I think "lack of effort required" is the key.

We can just throw prompts without understanding and caring about output. This way we can build something in 10 min we don't own.

We can also do real engineering with our architecture design, thinking about what exactly are we building and why, being critical about produced output. This way of building takes more time, but this is something we built ourselves and can be potentially more fulfilling. And this is not something anyone can copy with right prompt. There are more nuances than AI-generated code.

Another way to find fulfillment is to focus more on solving a real problem and building something people will use. Less on writing a code.

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