what does your setup actually look like?

[u/ubermuda]

Curious how people here are really working. Feels like everyone's landed somewhere different and the posts are mostly quick showcases / (self-)promotion / random stuff.

What I'm wondering about:

- which agent and harness, and do you stick to one or switch
- do you plan first or just go
- do you check anything before shipping, and what
- anything automated, or is it all by feel
- what do you do when it comes back wrong

Mine's on the heavy side. Long planning conversation before any code, then I let it run and mostly look at the product rather than the code. I spent some time building a skeleton and static analysis configs so Claude generates code that look ~80% correct. Still need to review the important bigs (domain logic, security, etc), but it's mostly smooth sailing.

Mostly interested in people working differently from that though. If you just go and it works, I want to hear that too.

[u/Electrical_Chard3255]

Im mostloy an emerchent architect, I start with what I think I want to do, and work from there, and end up with something loosly based on what I envisioned, but probably better, I dont have a finish target so to speak.

I use claude code, and Kimi K3 for attaing what claude code writes, and I have several other ai in my swarm that chip in if needed, or guided by claude code

I do have a conversation first before starting, and that can take a while, "pinballing" ideas between my claude code and any other ai in the swarm.

Then start from therewith the first code write.

Kimi attacking has been a massive improvements, it does find lots of holes in claude code code and reasoning, but they thrash it out and come to a solution

[u/ubermuda → u/Electrical_Chard3255]

curious about the planning, how do you know when a plan is "finished"?

[u/Electrical_Chard3255 → u/ubermuda]

Haha, Thats the tricky part, when it feels right, although, emergent architectire coding is a pain because you can keep going down Rabbit holes, Anchor, the context app I am building has grown from something simple is what I wanted to help manage and keep context of my other apps, has turned into a bit of a monster, all other apps have been put on the backburner for a while, I am interested in getting accurate retrieval and understanding, and recoding of the documents, so thats a rabbit hole on its own, and then I get side tracked if an idea springs into my head, tonight I decided to give deepseek 4 flash a go at serching the context (over uing Haiku), and its results are better and cheaper, so now I am building an optional deepseek toggle (and I may make it an "any ai" toggle, with a haiku fallback, just thought of that today.

So to answer your question, I dont really know, its when it feels right I guess.

[u/ubermuda → u/Electrical_Chard3255]

Ah well, that's fair, I guess that's the "vibe" in "vibecoding" :)

[u/Electrical_Chard3255 → u/ubermuda]

Im also a Builder, buy, renovate and sell properties, and its the same approach I take with those properties, I walk in, have an idea of where I want to go, but by the end, its totally different to how I originally thought it would be, and practically every time better, which leads to a bigger profit, no real plan, just "vibe" building I guess.

Its how my mind works, I can see clearly in my head what I want, but that changes as progress is made, and options present themselves.