AI Did It in 12 Minutes. It Took Me 10 Hours to Fix It

(idiallo.com)

16 points | by firefoxd 13 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • jwpapi 12 hours ago ago

    I was full on AI camp. I built a lot of useless stuff.

    I know deleted most of it and refactored it into an agile codebase with 40k lines less. My life is peace again.

    I now use ai for scratch tests and the next edit function from jet brains.

  • Kim_Bruning 12 hours ago ago

    Welp. if the system prompt says to do one thing, and you're going to do some other thing; that will never end well.

    More in general, I don't think there's good books on this yet. But if you want to try coding with AI, start out slow and scrutinize every edit first, get a feel for what kinds of mistakes are made and how they can be recovered from.

    AI doesn't quite work like a human does. It's also not a magic wand; sorry! It's great that you can sort of have an 'compile english' now, but programming is still a skill.

  • flogy 13 hours ago ago

    For me it mostly is the same experience. Of course it is possible to steer AI a bit by writing rules for it to follow. But in the end, I'd never go live with a purely vibecoded app as of now, not only because it will be a maintenance hell but also due to its security issues which still occur a lot too.

  • a456463 13 hours ago ago

    Same for me. I spent 3 days dealing with AI crap, following it's thinking "process".

    However it is great for "go add this username to this allowlist in this file"