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Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> make use of existing code, or be clever and replace a few lines of code with a few more lines of code You can be explicit about these things.

Yes. It is called programming.

Using agents is programming. Programming is done with the mind, the tapping of keys isn’t inherent to the process.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

#52

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…

Engineering code now is not just binary, it's a spectrum from vibe-coding through copilot-style (design and coding assistance) to your help-with-design-only to no-AI.

The capabilities now are strong enough to mix and match almost fully in the co-pilot range on substantial projects and repos.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

#53

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. So far... it's going to keep getting better to the point until all software is written this way.

I've got a bridge to sell you

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

#54

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. So far... it's going to keep getting better to the point until all software is written this way.

It seems like it's approaching a horizontal asymptote to me, or is at the very least concave down. You might be describing a state 50 years from now.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

#55

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…

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Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

#56
I am yet to see a vibe coded success that isn't a small program that already exists in multiple forms in the training data. Let's see something ground-breaking. If AI coding is so great and is going to take us to 10x or 100x productivity let's see it generate a new, highly efficient compression algorithm or a state-of-art travelling salesman solution.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

#57

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. So far... it's going to keep getting better to the point until all software is written this way.

Air traffic control software is not going to be vibe-coded anytime soon and neither is the firmware controlling the plane.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

#58

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. So far... it's going to keep getting better to the point until all software is written this way.

Successfully building an IKEA shelf doesn’t make you a carpenter.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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post #56

I am yet to see a vibe coded success that isn't a small program that already exists in multiple forms in the training data. Let's see something ground-breaking. If AI coding is so great and is going to take us to 10x or 100x productivity let's see it generate a new, highly efficient compression algorithm or a state-of-art travelling salesman solution.

And to add to this, for some reason people really bristle if you say that many LLM’s are just search with extra steps. This feels like an extension of that. It’s just reinventing the wheel over and over again based on a third party’s (admittedly often a solid approximation but still not exact) educated guess of what a wheel may be. It all seems like a rather circuitous way to accomplish things unless your goal isn’t to build a wheel but rather tinker and experiment with the concept of a wheel and learn something in the process. Totally valid, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what open AI et al are pitching lol

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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post #56

I am yet to see a vibe coded success that isn't a small program that already exists in multiple forms in the training data. Let's see something ground-breaking. If AI coding is so great and is going to take us to 10x or 100x productivity let's see it generate a new, highly efficient compression algorithm or a state-of-art travelling salesman solution.

https://thenewstack.io/how-deepminds-alphatensor-ai-devised-...

Not either of the species of algorithms you've described, but still an advance.

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