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It’s fantastic to have it, and an enormous productivity boost, but it would’ve literally taken months of work to write the same thing myself
frumplestlatz on Hacker News
in a day
In the thread “Architecture for Disposable Systems”
Helped: Generated entire LSP server in a day instead of months.
Got in the way: Cannot maintain code due to unstable upstream details; no idea what's inside.
… I vibe coded an entire LSP server — in a day — for an oddball verification language I’m stuck working in. It’s fantastic to have it, and an enormous productivity boost, but it would’ve literally taken months of work to write the same thing myself. Moreover, because it ties deeply into unstable upstream compiler implementation details, I would struggle to actually maintain it. …