> I find LLMs useful in regurgitating one-liners

This was the case for me a year ago. Now Claude or Codex are routinely delivering finished & tested complete features in my projects. I move much, much faster than before and I don’t have an elaborate setup - just a single CLAUDE.md file with some basic information about the project and that’s it.

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Eufrat 14 hours ago | parent [-]

People keep saying this and I agree Claude has gotten a lot better even in my own experience, but I think the value is questionable.

What’s the point of adding features that are inscrutable? I have gotten Claude to make a feature and it mostly works and if it doesn’t work quite right I spend a massive amount of time trying to understand what is going on. For things that don’t matter too much, like prototyping, I think it’s great to just be able to get a working demo out faster, but it’s kind of terrifying when people start doing this for production stuff. Especially if their domain knowledge is limited. I can personally attest to seeing multiple insane things that are clearly vibe coded by people who don’t understand things. In one case, I saw API keys exposed because they were treating database users as regular user accounts for website login auth.

> I move much, much faster than before

This is a bad metric as has been attested multiple times in unrelated situations. Moving faster is not necessarily productivity nor is it value.

	▲	GorbachevyChase 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That was equally true of human written code that you didn’t write. So if a human had written that insecure program, what would the consequences be ? Would they go to prison? Would they lose license to practice? When they get sued? If the answer to all of these is no, then where was the assurance before? These anecdotes of “well one time I saw an AI written program that sucked!” are just as valid as “well one time Azure exposed government user data”