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0 pointsdanmaz744mo ago0 comments

> adopted Sorbet and it is nothing but an impediment to progress

How so?

I never really missed types in Ruby, even if I like them a lot in typescript, but right now I'm doing some "vibe coding" on a personal project and I was thinking about trying Sorbet. I think that it could help Claude Code avoid some mistakes it often makes which make it waste a lot of time fixing.

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block_dagger4mo ago

It’s not a huge impediment but it adds up through: extra lines of sig code I now need to essentially ignore as I read as well as waiting for precommit hooks to check a giant codebase for compliance, plus extra rbi files in git. If engineers followed convention over config and tested types where necessary, no need for inline types. Just use TS if you want types.

zingar4mo ago

Interesting: how is CC in your experience at writing tests and then using them to avoid mistakes?

danmaz74OP4mo ago

When writing non-vibe-coded software I use CC a lot to write tests, but I have a skill to tell it not to create redundant tests, which otherwise it tends to do, and I have to check them anyway to ensure that they cover what needs to be covered, and sometimes to trim them down.

When vibe coding, what I noticed is that CC tends to make mistakes which it does catch with tests and fix on its own, but my hope is that using Sorbet this will happen much less, and thus development will go faster with less (slow) test cycles.

zingar4mo ago

Very interested to read the blog post about the results.

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block_dagger4mo ago

zingar4mo ago

Interesting: how is CC in your experience at writing tests and then using them to avoid mistakes?

danmaz74OP4mo ago

zingar4mo ago

Very interested to read the blog post about the results.

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