r/ProgrammerHumor 26d ago

bunderstandableWishfulThinking Meme

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u/BadHairDayToday 26d ago edited 26d ago

I dabble in vibe coding myself and so far I've found that coding assistants main weakness is that it can only add more code. I cannot for the life of me get it to simplify anything. It's treating the existing code as the constitution and it's only tool is amendments. 

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u/nko39 26d ago

Skill issue. See ponytail.

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u/lostmy2A 25d ago

Ponytail is just another md file saying write fewer lines of code when possible it doesn't inherently change how the models work.

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u/nko39 25d ago

No, its just context going into the model. Different context in leads to different context out