alt Hacker NewsIt's a tough pill for some HNers to swallow, but with a good process, you can vibe-code really good software, and software far more tested, edge-cased, and thoughtful than you would have come up with, especially for software that isn't that one hobby passion project that you love thinking about.
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I mean to be fair, if you are using agents more than likely you are not thinking about aspects of the code as deeply as you would have before. If you write things yourself you spend far more time thinking about every little decision that you're making.
Even for tests, I always thought the real valuable part of it was that it forced you to think about all the different cases, and that just having bunch of green checkboxes if anything was luring developers into a false sense of security
Shhhhh stop telling them! We don’t need more competition :)
This, but I think everybody that's awake knows this. I still not a fan of this project regardless, it's polishing a turd.
I’ve said it before here, but my mind was swayed after talking with a product manager about AI coding. He offhandedly commented that “he’s been vibe coding for years, just with people”. He wasn’t thinking much about it at the time, but it resonated with me.
To some agents are tools. To others they are employees.
Produce this "far more tested, edge-cased, and thoughtful" vibe-coded software for us to judge, please.
All I hear are empty promises of better software, and in the same breath the declaration that quality is overrated and time-to-ship is why vibecoding will eventually win. It's either one, or the other.
vibe coding implies a complete lack of process. The definition is basically YOLO....
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383