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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by turtlebits on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:02PM (#46734844)
No one is promising anything. It's just a giant experiment and the author explicitly tells you not to use it. I appreciate those that try new things, even it it's possibly akin to throwing s** at a wall and seeing what sticks.

Maybe it changes how we code or maybe it doesn't. Vibe coding has definitely helped me write throwaway tools that were useful.

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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by johnmaguire on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:15PM (#46734993)
After listening to Yegge's interview, I'm not sure this is accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJyJP517Uw

For example, he makes a comment to the effect that anyone using an IDE to look at code in 2026 is a "bad engineer."

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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by eikenberry on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:12PM (#46738669)
Hyperbole is very common.
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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by matkoniecz on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:01AM (#46741211)
In LLM field things move so fast that distinguishing accurate statements, mistaken statements, jokes and lies is hard.

A result, hyperbole is more annoying than usual.

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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by johnmaguire on Sunday January 25, 2026 @11:07AM (#46755285)
Watch the video - he's very clear that he's not looking at code. I see no indication that he is being hyperbolic.
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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by lovich on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:37PM (#46735272)
> It's just a giant experiment and the author explicitly tells you not to use it.

No, he threw up a hyperbolic warning and then dove deep into how this is the future of all coding in the rest of his talks/writing.

It’s as good a warning as someone saying “I’m not {X} but {something blatantly showing I am X}”

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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by amenhotep on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:22PM (#46735827)
Reminds me of Matt Levine on https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WACraar4p3o6oF2wD/sam-altman...
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