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Some thoughts:

- Is there a more elegant way to organize the prompts/specifications for LLMs in a codebase? I feel like CLAUDE.md, SPEC.mds, and AIDEV comments would get messy quickly.

- What is the definition of "vibe-coding" these days? I thought it refers to the original Karpathy quote, like cowboy mode, where you accept all diffs and hardly look at code. But now it seems that "vibe-coding" is catch-all clickbait for any LLM workflow. (Tbf, this title "shipping real code with Claude" is fine)

- Do you obfuscate any code before sending it to someone's LLM?

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> - Is there a more elegant way to organize the prompts/specifications for LLMs in a codebase? I feel like CLAUDE.md, SPEC.mds, and AIDEV comments would get messy quickly.

Yeah, the comments do start to pile up. I’m working on a vscode extension that automatically turns them into tiny visual indicators in the gutter instead.

> - What is the definition of "vibe-coding" these days? I thought it refers to the original Karpathy quote, like cowboy mode, where you accept all diffs and hardly look at code. But now it seems that "vibe-coding" is catch-all clickbait for any LLM workflow. (Tbf, this title "shipping real code with Claude" is fine)

Depends on who you ask ig. For me, hasn’t been a panacea, and I’ve often run into issues (3.7 sonnet and codex have had ~60% success for me but Opus 4 is actually v good)

> - Do you obfuscate any code before sending it to someone's LLM?

In this case, all of it was open source to begin with but good point to think about.

Is it really though, when a lot of critical business data goes through Google workspace (usually without client side encryption), or are we trying very hard to be a bit special in the name of privacy? From a result standpoint I find curious how interesting people deem their code base to be to a LLM provider.

true but this does matter to a lot of enterprise customers that have to obey strict data provenance laws (for instance, there are no gpt-4.1 model endpoints hosted in India and hence, fin-tech companies cannot use those apis)

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