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rideontimetoday at 12:10 PM1 replyview on HN

This mirrors my experience. Vibe-coding one-off, low-risk apps, it's been fantastic. Trying to take the same approach when implementing features in massive legacy codebases has been an utter nightmare.


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sajithdilshantoday at 12:18 PM

Exactly, and in most companies engineers have to implement feature in an existing codebase and hardly get to work on a completely greenfield projects. In my experience most of the time LLM take a quick dirty shortcuts to implement thing in a legacy codebase. It work, but not efficient and would collapse under heavy load, especially DB query implementations