After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

Post by vor_ » Sat, Feb 07, 2026, 8:05 AM UTC

threethirtytwo wrote: post #612

habinero wrote: post #537

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If you want to be any good at all in this industry, you have to develop enough technical skills to evaluate claims for yourself. You have to. It's essential. Because the dirty secret is a lot of successful people aren't actually smart or talented, they just got lucky. Or they aren't successful at all, they're just good at pretending they are, either through taking credit for other people's work or flat out lying. I'v…

Let me just list all of these people: Steve Yegge (Veteran engineer, formerly Google and Amazon): A leading technical voice who describes vibe coding as acting as an orchestrator. He maintains that engineers who do not master "agentic engineering" and AI-driven workflows will be left behind as the industry moves toward "hyperproductivity". Patrick Debois (Founder of DevOps): Often called the "godfather of DevOps," De…

Is this list AI-generated?

Post by Obscurity4340 » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

vor_ wrote: post #650

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #481

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It helps to write out the prompt in a seperate text editor so you can edit it and try to desribe what the input is, and what output you want as well as try to describe and catch likely or iteratively observed issues. You try a gamut of sample inputs and observe where its going awry? Describe the error to it and see what it does

With that much time and effort, it seems inefficient compared to just writing the code yourself.

I got it to write me a tracklist generator for playlist downloaded videos and it honestly would have taken a lot longer to get it just right over the 5 quick iterations I was able to do with assorted LLMs. I could definitely hack it together but it was far more expedient to simply prewrite out a prompt and tighten up the iterations when I noticed an edge case from daily use

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