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dnauticstoday at 1:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

Hard disagree. Usually I am wiser than the AIs but there have been times where the AI has pushed back and made me see the light on some poor design I was about to pursue


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ACCount39today at 1:09 PM

Sometimes, a rubber duck is good enough. But sometimes, you can benefit a lot from a rubber duck that can say "actually, your entire line of reasoning is wrong". Even if the latter is more frustrating.

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bjordtoday at 1:17 PM

I think the issue here is the nebulous definition of vibecoding.

You, as an experienced engineer, are doing a lot of hand holding and review of LLM-generated output, maybe even(?) using it as purely a check on your own work. There are others, though, that are essentially outsourcing the entire process to a basic, underspecified chat prompt.

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