Re:Vibe coding tips and tricks
by hardwaregeek on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:50AM
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My mental model for LLMs is that they’re a fuzzy compiler of sorts. Any kind of specification whether that’s BNF or a carefully written prompt will get “translated”. But if you don’t have anything to translate it won’t output anything good.
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Re:Vibe coding tips and tricks
by danielvaughn on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:48AM
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Yep, exactly. "Garbage in, garbage out" still applies.
> if you don’t have anything to translate it won’t output anything good.
One of the greatest quotes in the history of computer science:
“On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"