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rychco commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas

iLoveOncall · 6 months ago

This illusion that senior engineers are too good to fall in all the traps laid by vibe coding really needs to stop.

Just yesterday I was reading the comment of a Principal Engineer saying "of course vibe coding carries a huge risk for more junior engineers that don't understand when the LLM does something that looks right but is actually wrong", as if just because they have more experience THEY CAN.

No, you can't either. Not a single soul on this planet can review the thousands of lines of vibe coded bullshit that LLMs spit out.

Here's my guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Expert Programmers: don't.

rychco · 6 months ago

> as if just because they have more experience THEY CAN

I don't follow. Why wouldn't you believe that a senior engineer, that has been reviewing code for years, be any better at reviewing code?

rychco commented on Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers electrek.co/2025/08/05/el... · Posted by u/harambae

Apfel · 6 months ago

Sidepoint but they're also a complete gamechanger for the elderly and infirm.

My 70 year old, double-ankle replacement mother who I don't remember ever walking very comfortably bought an ebike a couple of years back.

The sheer joy on her face watching her whizz up a hill made me realise just how transformational these things can be.

rychco · 6 months ago

Agreed. E-bikes have gotten my elderly relatives moving too. From essentially sedentary to active on a daily basis.

Teens + other able bodied people are inactive for reasons unrelated to ease of pedaling.

rychco commented on Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers electrek.co/2025/08/05/el... · Posted by u/harambae

rychco · 6 months ago

This is cute, but the real reason our teens are inactive & unsocial is because of awful zoning laws + exurban sprawl. It’s not realistically possible to meet your friends anywhere, their homes are too far away & there aren’t any third-spaces to spend time at.

rychco commented on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to? · Posted by u/xeonmc

rychco · 9 months ago

I’ve (irregularly) donated to Zig, Janet, Blender, Godot, and Raylib. Outside of software, I have also donated to EFF (electronic frontier foundation).

rychco commented on Tell HN: TIL about Not By AI, A Badge you can add if your work is "human made" notbyai.fyi/... · Posted by u/kuberwastaken

rychco · 9 months ago

If this was a strong signal for quality that many people started relying on… AI creators would just lie about it.

The only ones benefiting from this are notbyai.fyi

rychco commented on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation finance.yahoo.com/news/ex... · Posted by u/baristaGeek

zefhous · 10 months ago

Oof this bit is rough!

> The startup supports Postgres, the most popular developer database system that’s an alternative to Google’s Firebase. Supabase’s goal: To be a one-stop backend for developers and "vibe coders."

rychco · 10 months ago

I don't necessarily think this is a bad goal, but the term "vibe coder" is almost certainly considered derogatory now.

rychco commented on Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi kagi.com/stats?stat=leade... · Posted by u/lucgommans

rychco · a year ago

I think it’s more likely that Kagi users value relevant search results & accurate information.

rychco commented on Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord revolt.chat... · Posted by u/OuterVale

_mitterpach · a year ago

Note that there have been rumours about Discord preparing to go public, I reckon this might be made in preparation for it. I think it is a wise move to offer an alternative.

The design is very similar to Discord, could this possibly even go to a copyright breach or is the bar for that set too high?

rychco · a year ago

> Note that there have been rumours about Discord preparing to go public

That’s disappointing, but even now it’s hard to imagine they’re particularly profitable. The core functionality of Discord is entirely free and I doubt that Nitro / other paid features earn that much.

rychco commented on YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month blog.youtube/news-and-eve... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

rychco · a year ago

We all know this is just the starting point & they'll inevitably raise the price without good reason. However, this is genuinely what I had been asking for; none of the youtube music nonsense.

The (current, temporary) price is reasonable, so I'll probably give it a try.

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't realize that background play wasn't included.

rychco commented on Discovery Coding jimmyhmiller.github.io/di... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

CobrastanJorji · a year ago

I think it's a dangerous philosophy for professional work. You know what happens to code that works? It ships.

If you code out a solution to the problem in order to discover the problem space, I think the idea here is that you then can go back and write a better solution that accounts for all of the stuff you discovered via refactoring and whatnot. But you're not going to do that refactoring. You're going to ship it. Because it works and you don't know of any problems with it. Are there scaling problems? Probably, you haven't run into any yet. Does your solution fit whatever requirements other interested parties might have? Who knows! We didn't do any designing or thinking about the problem yet.

rychco · a year ago

This is mostly my experience, except that I DO know the problems.

I don’t get to define the deadlines, that’s up to someone in a department entirely unrelated to engineering. Therefore I only have time to ship fragile, barely-tested code which is built on fragile untested legacy code.