[ccvannorman]

As someone who walked into 20k+ loc React/Next project, 95%+ vibecoded, I can say it's a relative nightmare to untangle the snarl of AI generated solutions. Particularly it is bad at separation of concerns and commingling the data. I found several places where there were in-line awaits for database objects, then db manipulations being done inline too, and I found them in the ux layer, the api layer, and even nested inside of other db repo files!

Someone once quipped that AI is like a college kid who studied a few programming courses, has access to all of stack overflow, lives in a world where hours go by in the blink of an eye, and has an IQ of 80 and is utterly incapable of learning.

[ccvannorman]

Yes, better prompting is absolutely essential, and I still love to let Claude do the heavy lifting when it comes to syntax and framing. But in trying to re-write the data model for this app, Claude continually failed to execute due to prompt size or context size limits (I use Claude Max). Breaking it into smaller parts became such a chore that I ended up doing a large part "by hand" (weird that we've come to expect so much automation, that "by hand" feels old school already!)

Oh, also when it broke down and I tried to restart (the data model rewrite) using a context summary, it started going backwards and migrating back to the old data model beacuse it couldn't tell which one was which .. sigh.