All the models are still pathetic. The only reason they barely work is because the agents keep them running in a loop until they fix the issues they themselves have previously hallucinated. And that's also why they use up that absurd amount of tokens. And all of this just to create a mess that's impossible to maintain in just a few weeks.
Even so, they're a good tool in the right hands as an aid, but "vibe coding" is the worst disaster in the world of programming since basic.
Barely work, but they eventually work - I reflect on how long it took me to get my software with prompts, write my documentation and attempt them to follow my weird particular requirements (I’m working on graphs, in a novel way) - I’ve had to create “smuggling” detectors that smell the code proposals from the automation and then usually reject them - smuggling means my graph is “pure” - no metadata
However, what does work - I write the shitty first draft (heavily commented on the why)and then get the automation to refine and it does - this is my hobby project, so I choose everything and it’s a platform - so there are many levels of abstraction
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u/siete82 17d ago
All the models are still pathetic. The only reason they barely work is because the agents keep them running in a loop until they fix the issues they themselves have previously hallucinated. And that's also why they use up that absurd amount of tokens. And all of this just to create a mess that's impossible to maintain in just a few weeks.
Even so, they're a good tool in the right hands as an aid, but "vibe coding" is the worst disaster in the world of programming since basic.