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The fact that we now have to write cook book about cook books kind of masks the reality that there is something that could be genuinely wrong about this entire paradigm. Why are even experts unsure about whats the right way to do something or even if its possible to do something at all, for anything non-trivial? Why so much hesitancy, if this is the panacea? If we are so sure then why not use the AI itself to come up…
The fact that we now have to write cook book about cook books kind of masks the reality that there is something that could be genuinely wrong about this entire paradigm. Why are even experts unsure about whats the right way to do something or even if its possible to do something at all, for anything non-trivial? Why so much hesitancy, if this is the panacea? If we are so sure then why not use the AI itself to come up…
The fact that we now have to write cook book about cook books kind of masks the reality that there is something that could be genuinely wrong about this entire paradigm. Why are even experts unsure about whats the right way to do something or even if its possible to do something at all, for anything non-trivial? Why so much hesitancy, if this is the panacea? If we are so sure then why not use the AI itself to come up…
“Cookbooks about cookbooks” are what a field does while it searches for invariants. Until we get reliable primitives and specs, we trade in patterns and anti-patterns. Asking the AI to “prove the paradigm” assumes it can generate guarantees it does not possess. It can explore the design space and surface candidates. It cannot grant correctness without an external oracle.
So treat vibe-engineering like heuristic optimization. Tight loops. Narrow scopes. Strong evals. Log everything. When we find the invariants, the cookbooks shrink and the compilers arrive.
The fact that we now have to write cook book about cook books kind of masks the reality that there is something that could be genuinely wrong about this entire paradigm. Why are even experts unsure about whats the right way to do something or even if its possible to do something at all, for anything non-trivial? Why so much hesitancy, if this is the panacea? If we are so sure then why not use the AI itself to come up…
This is like any other new technology. We’re figuring it out.
[0] - https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo...
Any setups without Claude Code? I use CoPilot agent heavily on VSCode, from time to time I have independent grunt work that could be parallelized to two or three agents, but I haven't seen a decent setup for that with CoPilot or some other VSCode extension that I could use my CoPilot subscription with.
It also supports background agents that you can kick off on the GitHub website, they run on VMs
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This is like any other new technology. We’re figuring it out.
Mostly agree but with one big exception. The real issue seems to be that the figuring out part is happening a bit too late. A bit like burn a few hundred billion dollars [0] first ask questions later!? [0] - https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo...
The fact that we now have to write cook book about cook books kind of masks the reality that there is something that could be genuinely wrong about this entire paradigm. Why are even experts unsure about whats the right way to do something or even if its possible to do something at all, for anything non-trivial? Why so much hesitancy, if this is the panacea? If we are so sure then why not use the AI itself to come up…
The difficulties of working with distributed systems are well known but it took a lot of research to get there. The uncertain part is whether research will help overcome the issues of using LLMs, or whether we're really just gambling (in the literal sense) at scale.
"- If you're uncomfortable pushing back out loud, just say "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K". I'll know what you mean"
Most of the rules seem rationale. This one really stands out as abnormal. Anyone have any idea why the engineer would have felt compelled to add this rule?
This is from https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-... mentioned in another comment