Re:Vibes Don't Maintain
by threatofrain on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:31AM
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He's saying that as a language of prompting, English won't scale properly, and that a well scaffolded codebase is also part of the prompt.
I think it makes sense. You're in a company full of many teams and people are building things, some manual, some autogenerated, some hybrid. When you notice that people are rebuilding many of the same things, of course you're not going to keep using LLMs to regenerate the basics of the universe. So you pick the very best and use that as the starting point, not tabula rasa markdown file.
I think it makes sense. You're in a company full of many teams and people are building things, some manual, some autogenerated, some hybrid. When you notice that people are rebuilding many of the same things, of course you're not going to keep using LLMs to regenerate the basics of the universe. So you pick the very best and use that as the starting point, not tabula rasa markdown file.