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Comment by malisper

11 days ago

> what looks like a massive undertaking for vibe coding

fwiw, I suspect it's less of an undertaking than you may think. I've been playing with AI to rewrite Postgres in Rust[0] over the past couple of weeks and I found the AI to be exceptional at doing rewrites. Having an existing codebase you can reference prevents a lot of the problems you have with vibecoding. You have an existing architecture that works well and have a test suite that you can test against

Over the course of a month I've gone from nothing to passing over 95% of the Postgres test suite. Given Jarred built Bun, I bet he'll be able to go much faster

[0] https://github.com/malisper/pgrust

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nailer  11 days ago

> I suspect it's less of an undertaking than you may think... having an existing codebase you can reference prevents a lot of the problems you have with vibecoding.

That's because it's not vibe coding - stingraycharles doesn't seem to understand what vibe coding is. Vibe coding was defined here https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

> There's a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

This is very far from Anthropic's migration plans.

  • andai  11 days ago

    Yeah, it's a distinction worth making, and the language for making it kind of sucks. Vibe coding means "AI does the whole thing", or "I use tab autocomplete" depending on who you ask. It's not a very useful term anymore, we need better ones.

    My benchmark is basically, "are you letting the AI drive."

    In this case, an AI appears to have written the migration guide...

    • wrs  11 days ago

      It was and is a perfectly good term, but people started using it without regard for its definition. I don't know why people wouldn't misuse a "better" term the same way.

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  • brabel  10 days ago

    You are right but recently, vibe coding has become a demeaning term for AI assisted code by anti-AI people. It’s interesting seeing how words evolve very quickly on the internet as they spread to different demographics.

  • Jtarii  10 days ago

    That is one person's definition of vibe coding, not "the definition" of vibe coding. Words have multiple meanings.

    • andai  10 days ago

      Just going off vibes and not even looking at the code was the original definition. But "different people say the same thing but mean different things" is kind of the problem I was getting at.