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This is also my experience. Everything I’ve ever tried to vibe code has ended up with off-by-one errors, logic errors, repeated instances of incorrect assumptions etc. Sometimes they appear to work at first, but, still, they have errors like this in them that are often immediately obvious on code review and would definitely show up in anything more than very light real world use.

They _can_ usually be manually tidied and fixed, with varying amounts of effort (small project = easy fixes, on a par with regular code review, large project = “this would’ve been easier to write myself...”)

I guess Gas Town’s multiple layers of supervisory entities are meant to replace this manual tidying and fixing, but, well, really?

I don’t understand how people are supposedly having so much success with things like this. Am I just holding it wrong?

If they are having real success, why are there no open source projects that are AI developed and maintained that are _not_ just systems for managing AI? (Or are there and I just haven’t seen them?...)

parent jrmg 9 months ago

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