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Just recently I was having trouble getting something to work with a large well documented framework library. Turned out the solution I needed was to switch to a
by rurp 1y ago
Just recently I was having trouble getting something to work with a large well documented framework library. Turned out the solution I needed was to switch to a similar but different API. But that's not what Claude told me. Instead it wanted me to override and rewrite a bunch of core library code. Fortunately I was able to recognize that the suggested solution was almost certainly bad and did some more digging to find the right answer, but I could easily see nightmarish code that solves immediate problems in terrible ways piling up fast in a vibe coded project.
I do find LLMs useful at times when working in unfamiliar areas, but there are a lot of pitfalls and newly created risks that come with it. I mostly work on large existing code bases and LLMs have very much been a mildly useful tool, still nice to have, but hardly the 100x productivity booster a lot of people are claiming.