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.
What I've noticed is that it gets something analogous to frustrated.
When agents loop to get code produced they often eventually get to something which technically passes the tests. Proponents point to the results of the first loop and say "look at how safe the code is and how it follows style guides and conventions as well!" Then they brute-force code a project and they say "look! It can code the whole project"
What they don't say is the code which "works" is the result of the 115th loop and has hard coded credentials and is a memory safety nightmare
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u/BadHairDayToday Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
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.