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  • Nice take.
    by bronlund
  • Ive downloaded a coding harness and using local llm to improve self hosting and security.

    Seems fairly easy but whereas hand coding i run into bugs that are some dark corner of the code,now i do the same but cant do more than yell at the LLM to do better.

    Im still saving time but the different types of bugs are fascinating.

    by cyanydeez
  • >now i do the same but cant do more than yell at the LLM to do better.

    Don't forget to add "Make no mistakes" to the prompt

    by yuye
  • a bit off-topic, and you've probably already tried this, but if you want a really nerdy way to log qso, try FLE in a text editor:

    https://github.com/on4kjm/FLEcli

    by mmstghjx
  • Thank you for the suggestion but yes, I already know it. I've even written a FLE syntax highlighting plugin for vim: https://rz01.org/vim-fle-syntax/ :)
    by exitnode
  • I did that too[1], twice[2] :-).

    [1] https://seaquel.app

    [2] https://github.com/webstonehq/tuxedo

    by mikenikles
  • You should look at the code. It sucks. It will make you feel sick. It does the thing but you are right - you won’t want to maintain it. It makes you feel hollow inside like when you are coming down from acid
    by slurpyb
  • Coming down from acid makes you feel hollow?
    by ost-ing
  • > I can code in Python myself. Not particularly well, but I can get done what I want or need to get done. What happened today, I can’t really call “vibe coding”. I didn’t code. I didn’t even look at the code. My role was that of a client or project manager who contracted someone/thing else to code for money. Furthermore, I was also the QA guy testing the application and giving feedback to Claude.

    We did a hackathon at work recently, and this was definitely one thing I learned during the process of our team using Claude to do the whole thing. (Using Claude was an explicit stated goal of the hackathon, fwiw; every team did this.)

    It felt very strange.

    by pavel_lishin
  • "...I can’t really call “vibe coding”. I didn’t code. I didn’t even look at the code"

    I thought that was the definition of vibe coding?

    by harvey9
  • Yes, but maybe the author disagrees with the term? I mean, can you even call it "coding" when you don't handle any code?
    by throw-the-towel

  •    - As a professional developer, I would find it very frustrating to have to debug someone else's code and also be held responsible for that code.
   
   - As a hobbyist developer, it would bother me that I'm no longer a developer.
    These two statements articulate my feelings about LLM-generated code better than I have heretofore been able to do myself.
    by thomascountz
  • Happy to hear that you feel the same!
    by exitnode
  • "As a professional developer, I would find it very frustrating to have to debug someone else's code and also be held responsible for that code." Are you really a professional programmer? A very basic responsibility for many professionals are maintaining someone else's code.
    by fsniper