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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by hughw on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:15PM (#48155161)
But it's so easy now to redo it all ground up, and if models improve, do it better next time.

I exaggerate only a little.

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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by Jagerbizzle on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:22PM (#48155219)
I'm with you on this one, having "vibe coded" some smaller internal tools on GPT 5, and then re-vibed it on Opus 4.6 and 5.5 -- they basically just fixed all of the problems without me doing much of anything other than prompting it to look at the existing code and make it "better".
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by jimbokun on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:55PM (#48155454)
How much is your budget for tokens?
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by djeastm on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:21PM (#48156227)
As long as it's under the budget for X number of senior software devs, it seems competitive.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by thefourthchime on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:35AM (#48157128)
Pretty much. We're intensely vibe coding something that has gone through so many requirement changes. The code has become very gnarly. I took a stab at basically one prompt rewrite of the whole thing. And it wasn't there, but it was 80% of the way there. and a hell of a lot cleaner.
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