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1. tippyt+L5[view] [source] 2025-05-14 20:10:15
>>laurex+(OP)
This article captures a lot of the problem. It’s often frustrating how it tries to work around really simple issues with complex workarounds that don’t work at all. I tell it the secret simple thing it’s missing and it gets it. It always makes me think, god help the vibe coders that can’t read code. I actually feel bad for them.
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2. iotku+R6[view] [source] 2025-05-14 20:18:07
>>tippyt+L5
There's a pretty big gap between "make it work" and "make it good".

I've found with LLMs I can usually convince them to get me at least something that mostly works, but each step compounds with excessive amounts of extra code, extraneous comments ("This loop goes through each..."), and redundant functions.

In the short term it feels good to achieve something 'quickly', but there's a lot of debt associated with running a random number generator on your codebase.

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