alt Hacker NewsAs someone who vibe codes at times (and is a professional programmer), I'm curious how yall go about resisting this? Just avoid LLMs entirely and do everything by hand? Very rigorously go over any LLM-generated code before committing?
It certainly is hard when I'm say writing unit tests to avoid the temptation to throw it into Cursor and prompt until it works.
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breckenedge • yesterday at 10:10 PM
Set a budget. Get rate limited. Let the experience remind you how much time you’re actually wasting letting the model write good looking but buggy code, versus just writing code responsibly.
I resist it by realizing that while LLM are good at things like decoding obtuse error messages, having them write too much of your code leads to a project becoming almost impossible to maintain or add to. And there are many cases where you spend more time trying to correct errors from the LLM than if you were to slow down and inspect the code yourself.