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1. brink · 1791054618 · focus · HN ↗

   I also have found that AI has not lived up to many of its promises and have dialed back what AI gets control of. My projects were turning into unmaintainable messes. The people who say coding is solved aren't paying attention.

   1. TuxSH · 1791062315 · focus · HN ↗

      Vibe coding has always had and always will have one fundamental flaw: you didn't write the code it produced, therefore you don't have a good understanding/mental model of it.

      On the other hand asking these clankers "review the feature branch I wrote" and "review my entire codebase for bugs" or "help me debug this" has saved me months of prospective work.

      And more recently most major models have been getting _really_ good at RE, for example you can have OAI models (and maybe A/'s if they don't refuse) use idalib MCP and reverse-engineer stuff from start to finish, then follow up with GLM 5.3 for vuln assessment and exploit PoC.

      Stuff that used to take weeks or months now just takes a few hours, or less.

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