Comment by program_whiz
16 hours ago
Best example of this is Claude's own terminal program. Apparently renders react at 60fps and then translates it into ANSI chars that then diff the content of the terminal and do an overwrite...
All to basically mimic what curses can do very easily.
This is the fun part of whole AI-built things that a lot of people don’t want to accept - it really, really, really does not matter if the code “nice, maintainable and etc.”. Does it work? Is it somewhat extendable with AI? Are users generally happy and adoption rate is high? That’s it.
In this case, no, it does not work. CC is full of reported rendering issues, including some that affect me.
If you have high time preference yes. Over longer time horizons I think the issues with vibe coded software will reveal themselves in the same way badly written software does.