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1. miranaproarrow · 1790105899 · focus · HN ↗

   My manager who vibe coded our entire webapp in claude design. Has difficulty understanding why its still not production ready.

   My job is to wire to our backend data, and a lot of these wiring require me to be in there and actually think about the features. These take time, and I just haven't figure out a way to speed this process up with Claude.

   1. godwinson__4-8 · 1790108494 · focus · HN ↗

      Why is this reassuring?

      Why won't smarter and cheaper models in the future be able to automate this part for your manager as well? How novel is the feature set? Is it he has a knowledge gap or the model is incapable of something? What expertise are you bringing to bear that is beyond the scope of a future harness/model? Why wouldn't such a model simply fill in the blanks for your management, perhaps observing a diff of whatever you did? How do you verify the correctness of your thinking? Why could a future model not replicate this process?

      I am just very puzzled by these sort of takes as we approach the end of 2026.

      1. aDyslecticCrow · 1790111079 · focus · HN ↗

         We can speculate about the capability of AI models in 10 years all we want. Currently; It's not good enough for the task.

         Taking a visual proof-of-concept and turning it into a real product with integration to an existing complex system requires the developer to re-do a-lot of the work. And reading code; especially AI code someone-else wrote, is a miserable experience.

         1. miranaproarrow · 1790111711 · focus · HN ↗

            Exactly! THANK YOU!!

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