Mixed
Productivity definitely went up, but my understanding of the codebase dropped fast
neebz on Hacker News
In the thread “Vibe engineering”
Helped: Shipped features to production with increased productivity.
Got in the way: Missed key test scenarios and lost codebase understanding.
… Finally I’ve shipped a bunch of features to prod with Claude writing all the code. Productivity definitely went up, but my understanding of the codebase dropped fast. Three months in I’m actually struggling to write good prompts or give accurate estimates because my grasp of the code hasn’t really grown (code reviews only help so much). …