Comment by foxygen
19 hours ago
I think I've been using AI wrong. I can't understand testimonies like this. Most times I try to use AI for a task, it is a shitshow, and I have to rewrite everything anyway.
19 hours ago
I think I've been using AI wrong. I can't understand testimonies like this. Most times I try to use AI for a task, it is a shitshow, and I have to rewrite everything anyway.
Have you tried Opus 4.5 (or similar recent models)? With Claude code 2, it's actually harder to mess things up IMO
I remember when about a year ago people were asking the same thing about gpt-4.5, the answer is always “yes, I’ve tried them all”
Ok, but have you tried claude-sonnet-GPT-codex-4.5-thinking-fast? That's the game changer. Anyone saying bad things about vibe coding without trying claude-sonnet-GPT-codex-4.5-thinking-fast is like a dinosaur to me, doomed to extinction. Seriously, give claude-sonnet-GPT-codex-4.5-thinking-fast a try, you'll thank me ;)
Fair. Well personally they didn't work well for me (on a huge, complex codebase) until the latest batch. Now they do.
Do you tell AI the patterns/tools/architecture you want? Telling agents to "build me XYZ, make it gud!" is likely to precede a mess, telling it to build a modular monolith using your library/tool list, your preferred folder structure, other patterns/algorithms you use, etc will end you up with something that might have some minor style issues or not be perfectly canonical, but will be approximately correct within a reasonable margin, or is within 1-2 turns of being so.
You have to let go of the code looking exactly a certain way, but having code _work_ a certain way at a coarse level is doable and fairly easy.
We are way beyond this. Now you use your plain text prompt to generate a requirements spec that the AI will follow when implementing your project
https://kiro.dev/
Kiro is just trying to build a product around exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not a fan, because it's simultaneously too heavyweight and agents don't respect all the details of the specs it creates enough to make the time investment in super-detailed specs worthwhile.
I have a spec driven development tool I've been working on that generates structured specs that can be used to do automatic code generation. This is both faster and more robust.
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Honestly, even this isn't really true anymore. With Opus 4.5 and 5.2 Codex in tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex CLI, "just do the thing" is a viable strategy for a shockingly large category of tasks.
Just do the thing can produce functional code, but even with Opus4.5/Codex5.2, there are still plenty of moments where the way it decides to do something is cringe.
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>You have to let go of the code looking exactly a certain way, but having code _work_ a certain way at a coarse level is doable and fairly easy.
So all that bullshit about "code smells" was nonsense.
A lot of code smells matter more for humans than LLMs (and LLMs have their own unique code smells). For example, nested ternary operators are a great source of bugs in human code, but agents could care less, but humans handle multiple files with the same variable names and lots of duplicated code well, whereas this stuff confuses agents.
Same. Seems to be the never ending theme of AI.
Try Claude. And partner with it on building something complex.
Yes you want Kiro which uses Claude models under the hood
I don’t know about right/wrong. You need to use the tools that make you productive. I personally find that in my work there are dozens of little scripts or helper functions that accelerate my work. However I usually don’t write them because I don’t have the time. AI can generate these little scripts very consistently. That accelerates my work. Perhaps just start simple.
Instead of generating, exporting or copy pasting just seems more reliable to me and also takes very little time.
I think what matters most is just what you're working on. It's great for crud or working with public APIs with lots of examples.
For everything else, AI has been a net loss for me.
have you tried using $NEWEST_MODEL ?
It’s because depending on the person the newest model crossed the line into being useful for them personally. It’s not like a new version crosses the line for everyone. It happens gradually. Each version more and more people come into the fold.
For me Claude code changed the game.
how much time/effort have you put in to educate yourself about how they work, what they excel at, what they suck at, what is your responsibility when you use them…? this effort is directly proportional to how well they will serve you