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Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by codingdave »

deepdarkforest wrote: post #8

This is a launch by a YC company that converts enterprise cobol code into java. Maybe it's my fault, but i tried every single coding agent with a variety of similar tools and whenever i try to parallelize, they clash while editing files simultaneously, i lose mental context of what's going on, they rewrite tests etc. It's chaos. Thats fine if you are vibe coding an unimportant nextjs/vercel demo, but i'm really scept…

It is not just chaos, it is an unwanted product. Don't misunderstand - people would love this product if it works. But AI cannot do this yet. Products like this are built on an assumption that AI has matured enough to actually succeed at all tasks. But that simply isn't true. Vibe coding is still slop.

AI needs to do every single step of this type of flow to an acceptable quality level, with high standards on that definition of "acceptable", and then you could bring all the workflow together. But doing the workflow first and assuming quality will catch up later is just asking for a pile of rejections when you try to sell it.

I'm not just making this up, either... I've seen and talked to numerous people over the last couple years who all came up with similar ideas. Some even did have workable prototypes running. And they had sales from the mom/friends/family connections, but when they tried to get "real" sales, they hit walls.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by bwfan123 »

barbazoo wrote: post #32

> human engineers now spend the majority of their time planning, reviewing, and orchestrating tasks This feel like much too broad a statement to be true.

> AI coding agents are increasingly writing the world's code and human engineers now spend the majority of their time planning, reviewing, and orchestrating tasks.

This tactic is called "assuming the sale". ie, Make a statement as-if it is already true, and put the burden on the reader to negate it. Majority of us are too scared of what others think, and go-along by default. It is related to the FOMO tactic in that it could be used in conjunction with it to make it a double-whammy. for example, the statement above could have ended with: "and everyone is now using agents to increase their productivity, and if you arent using it, you are left behind"

Glad you stood up to challenge it.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by ljm »

barbazoo wrote: post #32

> human engineers now spend the majority of their time planning, reviewing, and orchestrating tasks This feel like much too broad a statement to be true.

I wouldn't say it's the majority of my time but the most utility I've got out of AI is using MCP to deal with the boring shit: update my jira tickets to in progress/in review, read feedback on a PR and address the trivial shit, check the CI pipeline and make it pass if it failed, and write commits in a consistent, descriptive way.

It's a lot more hands on when you try to write code with it, which I still try out, but it's only because I know exactly what the solution is and I'm just walking the agent towards it and improving how I write my prompts. It's slower than doing it myself in many cases.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

#35

Post by hddbbdbfnfdk »

lharries wrote: post #2

I used this last week and it's excellent - feels like the same increase in productivity increase from when I first used Cursor. Are you thinking of doing a hosted version so I can have my team collab on it? And I found I could open lots of PRs at once but they often need to be dependent on each other - and then I want to make a change to the first one. How are you thinking of better managing that flow?

Very productive increase sirs! Whole team well promoted.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by rvz »

barbazoo wrote: post #32

> human engineers now spend the majority of their time planning, reviewing, and orchestrating tasks This feel like much too broad a statement to be true.

I read that too and these are the kind of statements which really tells you what happens when a profession embraces mediocrity and accepts something as crass as "Vibe-coding" which is somehow going to change "software engineering" even when adding so-called "AI agents" - which makes it worse.

All this cargo-culting is done without realizing that more code means more security issues, technical debt, more time for humans to review the mess and *especially* more testing.

Once again, Vibe-coding is not software engineering.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by Jolter »

amirhirsch wrote: post #37

great. now i have to spend my morning using vibe kanban to make a tui for vibe kanban with textual. i'll submit a pr as soon as it's finished.

It says in the linked readme to not open pull requests without discussing it first.
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