Mixed
After a bit of scaffolding, some style instructions and a few example systems, you can just chuck it a description and a few queries, it just goes to successful work and just needs a little tweaking afterwards
tetha on Hacker News
In the thread “Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Scaffolding, style instructions, examples, and good test suites.
Got in the way: Complex software growing over time without right questions.
… For example, we're seeing great value in rebuilding a Grafana instance from manually managed to scripted dashboards. After a bit of scaffolding, some style instructions and a few example systems, you can just chuck it a description and a few queries, it just goes to successful work and just needs a little tweaking afterwards. Similar, we're now converting a few remnants of our old config management to the new one using AI agents. …