what i'm seeing is agentic coding helps be(come) more ambitious
build your own framework, database, operating system, game engine etc
things that used to be infeasible (too hard, too big, …)
build your own framework, database, operating system, game engine etc
things that used to be infeasible (too hard, too big, …)
I see people one shot stuff and it makes no sense, is completely fake half the time, just like you point out.
It should be the case that Codex and Claude Code should incorporate this kind of thing automatically at some point.
In my personal experience, agentic coding wasn’t useful, but using a chat inference, was. I still need to be the critical path, but the LLM has, indeed, become a major force multiplier.
A few minutes ago, I submitted an app for review, that I started work on, alone, in February. The Quality of the new version is astounding. I’m absolutely thrilled.
It’s a full rewrite (backend server, and frontend client) of a fairly large app that’s been shipping for a couple of years, and that took over two years, to originally write.
I wouldn’t have even tried it, without an LLM. That made all the difference. The majority of the work was done with the $20/month ChatGPT Plus subscription, but the last few days, as I developed supporting materials and Web sites, I used the $100/month Pro level. After my work, over the last few months, the upgrade was a “no brainer.”
But, at every step of the way, I needed to be there, to intimately review and manage the interaction with the LLM. There’s no way that I could trust it to “just do it.”
I’m sure that, sooner or later (likely sooner), LLMs will have progressed to the point that I can trust them to vibe-code a project like this, but I guarantee, that they aren’t quite there, yet.
To be fair, I know that I may have much higher standards than a fairly significant number of developers, but the end product of my work is about as far from “AI slop” as you can get.
as always: no code, no link, not even a description.
Incoming reasons: possible doxx, "internal", etc. pp.
Seriously? I've explained this many times, but I assume that doing background research before insulting isn't a "modern" thing to do. Just Ready, Fire, Aim. Seriously, you could probably use ChatGPT to make a decent guess.
The issue is that the app addresses a specific (very privacy-aware) demographic. Each signup is manually vetted by two admins. It will probably never have more than a couple of thousand users, and the ones that are there, are more than a little [justified] paranoid.
Having several thousand curious geeks, do throwaway signups, just so they can see that the app is not for them, is not going to be helpful, so I never mention it here. If anyone really wants to know about it, I'm easy to contact. Unlike lots of folks, here, I am quite open about who I am.
The app, itself, is closed-source, but uses a significant number of open-source dependencies (that I also wrote -sometimes with AI help), which are easy to see.
And that's all I'll say.
Have a great day!
Have a great day!