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0 pointsforgetfulness4mo ago0 comments

Able to make changes preserving correctness over time

Vibecoding reminds me sharply of the height of the Rails hype, products quickly rushed to market off the backs of a slurry of gems and autoimports inserted on generated code, the original authors dipping and teams of maintainers then screeching into a halt

Here the bots will pigheadedly heap one 9000 lines PR onto another, shredding the code base to bits but making it look like a lot of work in the process

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jebarker4mo ago

Yes, preserving correctness seems like a good metric. My immediate reaction was to think that the parent comment was saying they’d like to see this comparison because AI will come out ahead. On this metric and based on current AI coding it’s hard to see that being the case or even possible to verify.

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0 pointsforgetfulness4mo ago0 comments

Able to make changes preserving correctness over time

Here the bots will pigheadedly heap one 9000 lines PR onto another, shredding the code base to bits but making it look like a lot of work in the process

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jebarker4mo ago

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