The article said:

> So I’m back to writing by hand for most things. Amazingly, I’m faster, more accurate, more creative, more productive, and more efficient than AI, when you price everything in, and not just code tokens per hour

At least he said "most things". I also did "most things" by hand, until Opus 4.5 came out. Now it's doing things in hours I would have worked an entire week on. But it's not a prompt-and-forget kind of thing, it needs hand holding.

Also, I have no idea _what_ agent he was using. OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, something local? And with a subscription, or paying by the token?

Because the way I'm using it, this only pays off because it's the 200$ Claude Max subscription. If I had to pay for the token (which once again: are hugely marked up), I would have been bankrupt.

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kaydub 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The article and video just feels like another dev poo-pooing LLMs.

"vibe coding" didn't really become real until 2025, so how were they vibe coding for 2 years? 2 years ago I couldn't count on an llm to output JSON consistently.

Overall the article/video are SUPER ambiguous and frankly worthless.

	▲	yojat661 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Cursor and gpt 4 have been a thing from 2023. So, no, vibe coding didn't become real just last year.
	▲	9rx 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I successfully vibe coded an app in 2023, soon after VS Code Copilot added the chat feature, although we obviously didn't call it that back then. I remember being amazed and at the time thinking the game had changed. But I've never been able to replicate it since. Even the latest and greatest models seem to always go off and do something stupid that it can't figure out how to recover from without some serious handholding and critique. LLMs are basically slot machines, though, so I suppose there has always been a chance of hitting the jackpot.