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YesTool not named · 27 Nov 2025

I dont think I actually wrote or fixed a single line of code by hand, and I definitely haven't read 100% of it

ac29 on Hacker News

2000 lines of code

In the thread “A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team”, replying to this comment

Helped: Iterative prompting for small bits, checking program output by hand.

Got in the way: Lack of documentation and tests; skepticism about scaling to large projects.

… There were shockingly few problems with this process, but when they did arise, I fixed them through a combination of reviewing the relevant code myself, reviewing log files, and additional prompting. I dont think I actually wrote or fixed a single line of code by hand, and I definitely haven't read 100% of it. Once the project was feature complete, I used more or less the same process to refactor a number of things to implement improvements, simplifications, and optimizations. …