Not so long ago I read something on HN which resonated with me: we’re moving into the era that is comparable to car mechanics enthusiasts. You have a previous generation of cars where people just enjoy working on with hand tools, and there’s modern cars where people like to tune with software patches.
From the very start of llms I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with code that was generated for me. Either it’s buggy, it works but I end up losing an evening on some obscure bug, or it’s full of red flags.
My latest hobby project is just in a text editor with markup and that’s it. I’m also done with the augmented assistance in the IDE. I google things I forgot. I constantly read these amazing stories of people vibe-coding some firmware/driver that just works, and honestly I’m starting to question whether I’m reading the posts of some promotional bot.
> I constantly read these amazing stories of people vibe-coding some firmware/driver that just works, and honestly I’m starting to question whether I’m reading the posts of some promotional bot.
There is a lot of bullshit out there for sure and I'm still not convinced llms are a net positive for society (even ignoring energy use and hardware inflation) but it's clear that it works in a lot of areas, for example when it comes to reverse engineering it pretty much is black magic, the progress made in ps5 and other consoles emulation is out of this world
chicken-stew · · focus · HN ↗
From the very start of llms I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with code that was generated for me. Either it’s buggy, it works but I end up losing an evening on some obscure bug, or it’s full of red flags.
My latest hobby project is just in a text editor with markup and that’s it. I’m also done with the augmented assistance in the IDE. I google things I forgot. I constantly read these amazing stories of people vibe-coding some firmware/driver that just works, and honestly I’m starting to question whether I’m reading the posts of some promotional bot.
toasty228 · · focus · HN ↗
There is a lot of bullshit out there for sure and I'm still not convinced llms are a net positive for society (even ignoring energy use and hardware inflation) but it's clear that it works in a lot of areas, for example when it comes to reverse engineering it pretty much is black magic, the progress made in ps5 and other consoles emulation is out of this world