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YesClaude Code · 31 Aug 2025

While GHC errors are verbose and not always the best it got everything building in a few more iterations

ocharles on Hacker News

In the thread “Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code”, replying to this comment

Helped: Running builds to see errors and adding logging to spot issues.

Got in the way: Occasionally went down valid but undesirable approaches.

… What I find most impressive now is the "fix" here is to literally have Claude run the build and see the errors. While GHC errors are verbose and not always the best it got everything building in a few more iterations. When it later got a test failure, I suggested we add a bit more logging - so it logged all state transitions, and spotted the unexpected transition and got the test passing. …