Re:Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
by johnisgood on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @04:12AM
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I experienced this, too. It is quite annoying. You have to explicitly tell the LLM to leave everything else as-is.
Re:Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
by fragmede on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @05:42AM
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use conventions.md to have it not do that.
Example scenario: you have a codebase that you iterated on with LLM, and it contains let's say 15 features with various implementation details. You continue tomorrow and want to make a small change to handle an edge-case. While making changes to one of the 3 required files, suddenly it will decide to also rewrite / "improve" other parts of the code that have nothing to do with your request, where pieces of previous logic will no longer exist - since it made 18 changes to the file, and there are 3 such files, good luck spotting it without thorough and detailed change review.
Also, if you made manual changes to generated code and than you ask it to add something to the code (within the same "conversation" / context, it will often replace your changes with how it originally wanted code to look like.