alt.hn

4/8/2026 at 9:36:37 PM

AI Did It in 12 Minutes. It Took Me 10 Hours to Fix It

https://idiallo.com/blog/it-took-me-10-hours-to-fix-ai-code

by firefoxd

4/8/2026 at 10:57:15 PM

I was full on AI camp. I built a lot of useless stuff.

I know deleted most of it and refactored it into an agile codebase with 40k lines less. My life is peace again.

I now use ai for scratch tests and the next edit function from jet brains.

by jwpapi

4/8/2026 at 11:00:15 PM

Welp. if the system prompt says to do one thing, and you're going to do some other thing; that will never end well.

More in general, I don't think there's good books on this yet. But if you want to try coding with AI, start out slow and scrutinize every edit first, get a feel for what kinds of mistakes are made and how they can be recovered from.

AI doesn't quite work like a human does. It's also not a magic wand; sorry! It's great that you can sort of have an 'compile english' now, but programming is still a skill.

by Kim_Bruning

4/8/2026 at 9:42:48 PM

For me it mostly is the same experience. Of course it is possible to steer AI a bit by writing rules for it to follow. But in the end, I'd never go live with a purely vibecoded app as of now, not only because it will be a maintenance hell but also due to its security issues which still occur a lot too.

by flogy

4/8/2026 at 10:18:37 PM

Same for me. I spent 3 days dealing with AI crap, following it's thinking "process".

However it is great for "go add this username to this allowlist in this file"

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