About the same 1-2 weeks as a junior vibes coder vs the manual coder
lmeyerov on Hacker News
About the same 1-2 weeks as a junior vibes coder vs the manual coder
In the thread “Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity”, replying to this comment
Helped: Parallel agents, long runs, and prior prompt engineering experience.
Got in the way: Initial onboarding was slow and managing multiple agents was exhausting.
… Despite being new to agentic coding at the time, key aspects were in my favor: senior dev, 2 years of ~daily prompt engineering experience (tactics), PhD in code synthesis (strategy), and the repo setup with various lint/type/test guardrails. * Result: About the same 1-2 weeks as a junior vibes coder vs the manual coder * Experience: It was clear the first 1-2 weeks were slow due to onboarding myself and the codebase to agentic coding. …