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simianwordstoday at 7:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Your kind of critique forgets the tradeoff between getting something out quick vs doing something slowly and nicely.

If you choose slowly, you are depriving your users of the value from your app for a long time. It’s not as clear a choice as you think


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adrian_btoday at 7:25 AM

Have you read my entire comment?

I have already said that sometimes time-to-market is the most important, so that should be the priority, but the advantage of delivering immediately the application is only temporary, so you must improve quickly your first possibly vibe-coded implementation, otherwise better alternatives will be delivered by others.

Claude Code is an obvious example of this, because it has practically opened a new market, but because it has remained a mess now there are better alternatives.

What is wrong is not generating instantly a proof-of-concept application that barely works and using it in the beginning, but continuing to build upon that even after you had enough time to rewrite it.

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