if you give good specifications and clear design goals and architectural guidance, it’s like managing a small team but 12x faster iteration
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12x faster iteration
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Helped: Good specifications, clear design goals, and architectural guidance.
Got in the way: Vibe coding for complex embedded systems with layered state machines.
… But supervised AI code generation definitely does work. You need a highly refined sense of “smell” and intuition about architecture and data design, but if you give good specifications and clear design goals and architectural guidance, it’s like managing a small team but 12x faster iteration. I sometimes am surprised with feature scope or minor execution details but usually whenever I drill down I’m seeing what I expected to see, even more so than with humans. …