Comment by jumploops
16 days ago
To be fair, the author says: "Do not use Gas Town."
I started "fully vibecoding" 6 months ago, on a side-project, just to see if it was possible.
It was painful. The models kept breaking existing functionality, overcomplicating things, and generally just making spaghetti ("You're absolutely right! There are 4 helpers across 3 files that have overlapping logic").
A combination of adjusting my process (read: context management) and the models getting better, has led me to prefer "fully vibecoding" for all new side-projects.
Note: I still read the code that gets merged for my "real" work, but it's no longer difficult for me to imagine a future where that's not the case.
Static analysis helps a lot. For example, I use jscpd [0] to solve the problem of AI duplicating code.
[0] https://github.com/kucherenko/jscpd
What's the process for getting an agent like Claude Code to use jscpd effectively? I assume it's just another tool call with some basic prompting?
I have it as a pre commit hook and also runs in CI. I also wrote an eslint plugin
https://github.com/shepherdjerred/scout-for-lol/blob/main/es...
I have noticed in just the past two weeks or so, a lot of the naysayers have changed their tunes. I expect over the next 2 months there will be another sea change as the network effect and new frameworks kick in.
No. If anything we are getting "new" models but hardly any improvements. Things are "improving" on scores, ranking and whatever other metrics the AI industry has invented but nothing is really materializing in real work.
I've seen a number of previous skeptics change their tune with Opus 4.5.
I think we have crossed the chasm and the pragmatists have adopted these tools because they are actually useful now. They've thrown out a lot of their previously held principles and norms to do so and I doubt the more conservative crowd will be so quick to compromise.
2 years sounds more likely than 2 months since the established norms and practices need to mature a lot more than this to be worthy of the serious consideration of the considerably serious.