AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please

Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by Centigonal on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:09PM (#43536629)

> I have friends who write a lot of this code for tasks like data analysis for retail and "vibe coding" isn't that crazy in such a domain.

I think this is a great use case for AI, but the analyst still needs to understand what the code that is output does. There are a lot of ways to transform data that result in inaccurate or misleading results.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by LPisGood on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:15PM (#43536694)

Vibe coders focus on writing tests, and verifying function/correctness. It’s not like they don’t read _any_ of the code. They get the vibes, but ignore the details.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by cube00 on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:12PM (#43537314)

> Vibe coders focus on writing tests

From the boasting I've seen, Vibe coders are also using AI to slop out their tests as well.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by kibwen on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:16PM (#43537365)

Worry not, we can solve this by using AI to generate tests to test the tests.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by LPisGood on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:28PM (#43540188)

Testing the tests is pretty much the definition of being a vibe coder.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by LPisGood on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:27PM (#43540179)

Yeah and tests are much easier to validate than functions.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by hooverd on Monday March 31, 2025 @02:05PM (#43537895)

Huh. The whole promise of vibe coding is that you don't have to pay attention to the details.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by namaria on Monday March 31, 2025 @02:24PM (#43538058)

"You're programming wrong wrong" /s

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by LPisGood on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:26PM (#43540165)

Yeah, of course. I don’t think what I described could possibly be misconstrued as someone paying attention to details.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by achierius on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:34PM (#43541938)

This seems optimistic -- prescriptive, rather than descriptive. From what I've observed, vibe coders largely do not include tests; they do verify functionality/correctness, but not rigorously or repeatably.

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