Comment by yodsanklai

I recently had the following experience. I vibe-coded something in a language I'm not super familiar with, it seemed correct, it type-checked. Tests passed. Then reviewer pointed many stylistic issues and was rightfully pissed at me. When I addressed the comments, I realized I would not have made those mistakes had i written the code myself. It was a waste of time for me and the reviewer.

Another thing that happens quite often. I give the task to the LLM. It's not quite what I want. I fix the prompt. Still not there. Every iteration takes time, in which I lose my focus because it can take minutes. Sometimes it's very frustrating, I feel I'm not using my brain, not learning the project. Again, loss of time.

At the current stage, if I want to be productive, I need to restrict the use of the LLMs to the tasks for which there's a high change that it'll get it right in the first try. Out of laziness, I still have the tendency to give it some more complex tasks and ultimately lose time.