ElBarto

Oh I see! Thanks. I thought that they deliberately rejected your patch. But it was more about the red tape getting in the way. Yeah, that sounds frustrating.

Why didn’t your patch get merged?

Hehe sorry, don’t mind me.

I still have my reservations, but I’ve changed my mind about “vibe coding”.

Juniors vibe coding? Awful idea. It stunts learning. Non-programmers vibe coding? Aside from small scripts, anything exposed to the internet is a dangerous thing.

Experienced programmers who already know what they’re doing? Code assistants can be a bliss for tired fingers and wrists.

Is this answer generated? It doesn’t say anything OP didn’t address already.

You probably know this, but aside from that, Claude has “plan mode”. When writing, hit “Shift+Tab” a few times until you select it. Claude won’t immediately start coding when you give it instructions.

Also, ask him about the "superpowers* and “ask questions” skills. Game changers too.

Do you tell Claude to make a plan first?

That helps me tremendously. Whenever something needs to be modified, I tell it to update the plan first, and to stick to the plan.

That way, Claude doesn’t rewrite code that has already been implemented as part of the plan.

And understanding the plan helps understanding the code.

Sometimes if I know there will be a lot of code produced, I’ll tell it to add a quick comment on every piece it adds or modifies with a reference to the step in the plan it refers to. Makes code reviewing much more pleasant and easier to follow. And the bugs and hallucinations stick out more too.

Is programing.dev a lemmy instance, or a piefed one?

I’m far from being an AI defender. And for the longest time I resisted the idea of vibe coding.

I will give you that, without the right experience, vibe coding feels like gambling.

But I learned rather quickly that you must first work on a dev plan with an LLM, and until that plan hasn’t covered every scenario, then you don’t move on.

That yields much better results, and it has the advantage of having the blueprints for when you need the LLM to make changes.