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by ip26 14 days ago
Depends on the quality of your validation loop. Can the agent find the bug in a five second unit test, or does it have to run the full deployment test?

It also presents tradeoffs in compute budget. Cycles spent executing large arrays of tests could mean less tokens spent debugging.

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> Depends on the quality of your validation loop. Can the agent find the bug in a five second unit test, or does it have to run the full deployment test?

I am not asking about time or completeness. I am asking if this person is spending 1 dollar to make more than a dollar, or if they are spending 1 dollar to make less than a dollar.

Any other criteria is not necessary to consider, if the activity is not profitable.

Who cares about that?

Vibes, baby, vibes!!!

Based on the person I was talking to’s reply, it does seem that way
I don't know if you guys are trolling or not, honestly. Vibe coding is misrepresented. I'm building extremely complex features that are grounded in our codebase but fundamentally rests on the training data which includes all academic papers on the very subject I am iterating on.

you can't just handwave this all away with "vibe baby, vibe" and then high-fiving each other that oh you're so clever because you manually write code/think the code is too high.