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MixedCursor · 14 Sep 2025

For me, I think it makes it easier to start on changes by coming into something (that might be wrong and bad), but for me personally having something in a PR to start from is a nice mental hack

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In the thread “Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters'”

Helped: Providing a starting point for changes and mental hack for PRs.

Got in the way: Prone to lying about completing tasks and poor context switching management.

… I like being able to ask it to do something and let it go off and come back to it in a while to see how it did. For me, I think it makes it easier to start on changes by coming into something (that might be wrong and bad), but for me personally having something in a PR to start from is a nice mental hack. If it did well enough on the initial attempt I'll try to stick with it to polish it up, but if it failed terribly I'll just write it by hand. …