Sounds like they need to work on their prompts. I vibe code some hobby projects I wouldn’t have done otherwise and it’s never done that. I have it comment each change and review it all in diff checker so that’s 90% of the time.
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
After working on a team that uses LLMs in agentic mode for almost a year, I’d say this is probably accurate.
Most of the work at this point for a big chunk of the team is trying to figure out prompts that will make it do what they want, without producing any user-facing results at all. The rest of us will use it to generate small bits of code, such as one-off scripts to accomplish a specific task - the only area where it’s actually useful.
The shine wears off quickly after the fourth or fifth time it “finishes” a feature by mocking data because so many publicly facing repos it trained on have mock data in them so it thinks that’s useful.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
rozodru@piefed.social 1 day ago
I guarantee you that it HAS done that and I can almost assure you that whatever hobby project you've vibe coded doesn't scale and I sure as hell hope it's nothing that needs to be online or handles any sort of user info.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Scale? It’s a personal ancestry site for my surname with graphs and shit mate. Compares naming patterns, locations, dna, etc between generations and tries to place loose people. Works pretty well, managed to find a bunch of missing connections through it.
NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
There is something I never understood about people who talk about scaling. Surely the best way to scale something is simply to have multiple instances with so many users on each one. You can then load balance between them. Why people feel the need to make a single instance scale to the moon I have no idea.
It’s like how you don’t need to worry about MS Word scaling because everyone has a copy on their own machine. You could very much do the same thing for cloud services.
aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 11 hours ago
You have no idea what you’re talking about lol.
rozodru@piefed.social 1 day ago
Rule of thumb: only use it for one or two runs and that's it. after that back off because then Claude Code is then just going to start vomiting fecal matter from the other fecal matter its consumed.
If it can't nail something on the first or second go, don't bother. I have clients that have pushed it through those moments and have produced literal garbage. But hey I make money off them so keep pushing man. I got companies/clients that are so desperate to reverse what they've done that they're willing to wait until like March of next year when I'm free.