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"No Duh," say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, code bloat with LLMs is fucking monstrous. If you use them, get used to immediately scouring your code for duplications.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah if I use it and it generatse more than 5 lines of code, now I just immediately cancel it out because I know it's not worth even reading. So bad at repeating itself and falling to reasonably break things down in logical pieces..

With that I only have to read some of it's suggestions, still throw out probably 80% entirely, and fix up another 15%, and actually use 5% without modification.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

There are tricks to getting better output from it, especially if you're using Copilot in VS Code and your employer is paying for access to models, but it's still asking for trouble if you're not extremely careful, extremely detailed, and extremely precise with your prompts.

And even then it absolutely will fuck up. If it actually succeeds at building something that technically works, you'll spend considerable time afterwards going through its output and removing unnecessary crap it added, fixing duplications, securing insecure garbage, removing mocks (God... So many fucking mocks), and so on.

I think about what my employer is spending on it a lot. It can't possibly be worth it.