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dylanhouli • today at 7:36 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Here I am still unable to stop myself from doing line-by-line code review. I notice too many things (redundant code, duplicate code, overly complex architecture, etc.) by doing it that I feel it would be careless not to.


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stillpointlab • today at 8:02 PM

My advice is to start a totally vibe coded side project. You will never gain confidence until you experiment, find the failure cases, learn to deal with them, etc.

Choose something you want to do but don't really care that much about. Be more ambitious than you think you could be, have a high bar on the outcome but purposefully choose to completely ignore the actual code. Make it write tests, dashboards, monitoring - whatever you need other than code to feel confident.

Now is the cheapest time it will ever be to experiment.

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benoau • today at 7:39 PM

This is why I like GitHub Copilot's autocompletion, I'm right there guiding and policing the code as it appears.

g-b-r • today at 7:39 PM

You're unable to stop being responsible? Tragic!

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dyauspitr • today at 7:49 PM

No one cares about good code. It’s a means to an end. Your code doesn’t need to look pretty or be well documented or any of that stuff anymore because people are not looking at it. The only thing people care about is performant and error free code.

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