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I just vibecoded 2 silly projects over the weekend to test this for the first time (prior all my AI coding is at the function level, which has been enormously b
by qingcharles 1y ago
I just vibecoded 2 silly projects over the weekend to test this for the first time (prior all my AI coding is at the function level, which has been enormously beneficial).
First app was to scrape some data using a browser. It did an excellent job here, went down one wrong path that it obsessed over (it was a good idea in theory and should have worked) and in the end produced a fully-working tool that exceeded my requirements and the UI looked way more polished than I would have bothered with for a tool I wrote for me only.
Second app is a DHT crawler. It has gone down so many dead ends with this thing. The docs for the torrent tools don't match the code, I guess, so it gets horribly confused (so do GPT, Grok, Claude, Gemini). Still not working 100% and I've wasted way more time than it probably would have taken to learn the protocols and write it from scratch.
The main issue is -- I have no idea what the code looks like or really how it works. When I write code I almost always have a complete mental map of the entire codebase and where all the functions are in which files. I literally know none of that. I've tried opening the code on the DHT app and it is mentally exhausted. I nope out and just go back to the agent window and try poking it instead, which is a huge time waster.
So, mixed feelings on this. The scraper app saved me a bunch of time, but it was mostly a straightforward project. The DHT app was more complicated and it broke the system in a bunch of ways.
Try again in 6 months?
- florianherrengt 1y agoThis is my plan. Ignore the hype. Try again later. There's no need for FOMO. I have plenty of time to catch up.