Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

I don’t know which models you guys are working with, but all of the SOTA ones I’ve tried in different configurations ended up producing mostly garbage.

I find myself having to spend more time guiding the model in the right direction and fixing its mistakes than I would’ve spent building it all myself.

Every time I read one of these stories I feel like maybe you guys have models from 2035, because the ones we have today seem to be useless outside of creating greenfield, simple React apps that just sort of work.

One thing I’ll say is that it’s been a real time saver for debugging. For coding, a huge waste of time. Even for tasks that are menial, repetitive, require no thinking etc. I find that it’s mostly crap.

It works for people who don't really look at the code, or try to understand what the LLM spat out. It's right there in this article: if it compiles and runs, just commit and push.

They usually don't write this kind of blog post anymore after they tried to vibe-code an extension or modification onto their vibe-coded application.

There was a good one on HN a while ago, though, of someone who decided to actually take a look at their vibe-coded codebase, finding an unbelievable mess of inconsistencies and redundancies.

People who just want to put something together and hate programming can be fine with this. Anyone who wants to build something clean that actually lasts, won't.