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NoTool not named · 15 May 2025

The code I generally work on is embedded C/C++ with in-house libraries where the tools are less than useful as they try to generate non-existant interfaces and generally generate worse code than I'd write by hand

tauoverpi on Hacker News

In the thread “Perverse incentives of vibe coding”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Generating non-existent interfaces and worse code than hand-written.

I've had the same issue every time I've tried it. The code I generally work on is embedded C/C++ with in-house libraries where the tools are less than useful as they try to generate non-existant interfaces and generally generate worse code than I'd write by hand. There's a need for correctness and being able to explain the code thus use of those tools is also detrimental to explainability unless I hand-hold it to the point where I'm writing all of the code myself. …