• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Vibe coding works when you need to say connect to some API and can feed the model a bunch of docs.

    It’s great for very low skill, low maintenance, low risk code that I can easily and reliably regenerate.

    Increasingly coding models are improving at architecture choices, Claude 4.5 vs 4 is way better here. But ultimately it’s inferior to a ginger making those choices.

    It’s also a great debugger and reviewer.

    I used it this weekend to connect to an API and to build a table of constants by just feeding it docs. That was a huge time saver.

    I also used it to try and implement stuff and I gotta say once it hit tricky things it started trying to game it and just say it works.