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Retr0idtoday at 1:05 PM5 repliesview on HN

What are some examples of when buggy code can be tolerated?


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simonwtoday at 1:07 PM

If the code is being used by a small group of people who are willing to figure out and share workarounds for those bugs - internal staff, for example.

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dktptoday at 1:15 PM

From recent personal examples

We have a somewhat complicated OpenSearch reindexing logic and we had some issue where it happened more regularly than it should. I vibecoded a dashboard visualizing in a graph exactly which index gets reindexed when and into what. Code works, a little rough around the edges. But it serves the purpose and saved me a ton of time

Another example, in an internal project we made a recent change where we need to send specific headers depending on the environment. Mostly GET endpoint where my workflow is checking the API through browser. The list of headers is long, but predetermined. I vibecoded an extension that lets you pick the header and allows me to work with my regular workflow, rather than Postman or cURL or whatever. A little buggy UI, but good enough. The whole team uses it

I'm not a frontend developer and either of these would take me a lot of time to do by hand

Itoldmyselfsotoday at 1:34 PM

Points at the public sector

hiuioejfjkftoday at 2:25 PM

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