Comment by badlibrarian
2 hours ago
Very, very senior dev here who has never taken a shortcut in his life. Don't mean to sound like a prick but you're doing it wrong. You have to find your own path through this stuff. It works, promise. I was in your shoes six weeks ago.
Wait, only six weeks ago? That's not long enough to be reporting success, genuinely. Come back in a few months, bare minimum. I'm far from a skeptic, but I've also personally had a number of moments over the past 12 months where I've declared "this is the future!" about some new app I vibe-coded, or some new workflow I started following, only to abandon it a few weeks later. And it's not just me. Check back in on many of the vibe-coded projects or AI tools you see shared and you'll see the same. It's happened at my work too — people taking over entire meetings to discuss their new revolutionary AI workflow and then, a week later, nothing...
A big problem is that these codebases rot. Agents move incredibly fast at first, but then as you pay less attention (or perhaps no attention at all) to the architecture, they slowly fall to bits. So then you decide, I'll use AI to rewrite it! And it gets better for a while until, well, you get it.
That's not to say there isn't value here, there absolutely is, just — chill. A little.
To be fair, a "very very senior dev" wouldn't tell me that I'm doing it wrong without telling me what I'm doing wrong.
I've tried. It's like trying to teach squirrels how to Google. Really, you just have to figure out what works for you. You will be rewarded.
This combination of "no true scotsman" and "you're holding it wrong" is quite amazing to behold.
If AI is as good as it being marketed as, you shouldn't even be able to hold it wrong!
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A very very senior dev can use LLMs with confidence and definitely doesn't get surprised by them.