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by dewey 45 days ago
I bought domains for projects minutes after the idea.

I don’t think it’s that weird to not look at the code if it’s a side project and you follow along incrementally via diffs. It’s definitely a different way of working but it’s not that crazy.
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bayarearefugee 45 days ago
> I don’t think it’s that weird to not look at the code if it’s a side project and you follow along incrementally via diffs.

Its not weird to not look at the code, as long as you're looking at the code? (diffs?)

Uh, ok

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retsibsi 45 days ago
The article explicitly says that the author looked at the diffs; it distinguishes this from "sitting down and actually reading the code", which they didn't do. So when plastic041 says the author spent 7 months vibe coding "without ever looking at source code", it's not unreasonable for dewey to assume that "looking at source code", in this context, actually means something stronger and excludes just looking at the diffs.
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