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NoClaude · 28 Jan 2026

I realized "hold on, I don't need all that crap that it generated" and immediately thought of solutions that required a 10th of the code mass

evjan on Hacker News

10th of the code mass

In the thread “Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding”

Got in the way: Generated excessive code requiring less code for same result.

… I've had 3 days in a row at work where I've vibe coded heavily with Opus 4.5 and was flowing and felt super productive and almost manic. At the end of every one of those days when I went for a walk with my dog I realized "hold on, I don't need all that crap that it generated" and immediately thought of solutions that required a 10th of the code mass. I've wasted hours on refining something that was crap. …