talk is even cheaper, still show me the code, people claim 10x productivity that translates to 10x of work done in a month, even with Opus 4.5 out since November 2025 I haven't seen signs of this. AI makes the level of complexity with modern systems bearable, it was getting pretty bad before and AI kinda saved us. A non-trivial React app is still a pain to write. Also creating a harness for a non-deterministic api that AI provides is also pain. At least we don't have to fight through typing errors or search through relevant examples before copying and pasting. AI is good at automating typing, the lack of reasoning and the knowledge cutoff still makes coding very tedious though.

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program_whiz 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Best example of this is Claude's own terminal program. Apparently renders react at 60fps and then translates it into ANSI chars that then diff the content of the terminal and do an overwrite...

All to basically mimic what curses can do very easily.

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tokioyoyo 10 hours ago | parent [-]

This is the fun part of whole AI-built things that a lot of people don’t want to accept - it really, really, really does not matter if the code “nice, maintainable and etc.”. Does it work? Is it somewhat extendable with AI? Are users generally happy and adoption rate is high? That’s it.

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esafak 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In this case, no, it does not work. CC is full of reported rendering issues, including some that affect me.

	▲	tokioyoyo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Remember 8 years ago how vibe coding was awful? Like i never used it in prod apps. Now i'm a daily CC user, and every few months models are getting better, some problems are being solved, the other ones still being worked on and so on.

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chr15m 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you have high time preference yes. Over longer time horizons I think the issues with vibe coded software will reveal themselves in the same way badly written software does.