alt Hacker NewsI feel so weird not being the grumpy one for once.
Can't relate to GP's experience of one-shotting. I need to try a couple of times and really hone in on the right plan and constraints.
But I am getting so much done. My todo list used to grow every year. Now it shrinks every month.
And this is not mindless "vibe coding". I insist on what I deploy being quality, and I use every tool I can that can help me achieve that (languages with strong types, TDD with tests that specify system behaviour, E2E tests where possible).
I'm on my 5th draft of an essentially vibe-coded project. Maybe its because I'm using not-frontier models to do the coding, but I have to take two or three tries to get the shape of a thing just right. Drafting like this is something I do when I code by hand, as well. I have to implement a thing a few times before I begin to understand the domain I'm working in. Once I begin to understand the domain, the separation of concerns follows naturally, and so do the component APIs (and how those APIs hook together).