joshbee

This is pretty interesting take on design and your trick to make the surface maps is pretty slick!

I did have one question about the tool, is it possible to set how many variations you want per step? I would rather be able to guide it manually at some steps where maybe I know pretty well what I want or just need minor tweaks, and then let it loose on others when really trying to experiment with an idea.

Vanilla javascript is hit or miss for anything complex.

Using Typescript works great because you can still build out the interfaces and with IDE integrations the AIs can read the language server results so they get all the type hints.

I agree that the AI code is usually a pretty good starting point and gets me up to speed for new features fast rather than starting everything from scratch. I usually end up refactoring the last 10-20% manually to give it some polish because some of the code still feels off some times.

I'm in the same boat. I've been taking on much more ambitious projects both at work and personally by collaborating with LLMs. There are many tasks that I know I could do myself but would require a ton of trial and error.

I've found giving the LLMs the input and output interfaces really help keep them on rails, while still being involved in the overall process without just blindly "vibe coding."

Having the AI also help with unit tests around business logic has been super helpful in addition to manual testing like normal. It feels like our overall velocity and code quality has been going up regardless of what some of these articles are saying.