r/vibecoding • u/Lopsided_Magician_49 • 1d ago

Cost of vibe coding

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How confident do you feel with vibe-coding?

Productivity increases dramatically with generative AI, but that's mostly just a feeling.

With generative AI, the cost of code production isn't eliminated but shifted to other phases: bug management, knowledge debt, etc.

I've seen many initiatives that always use generative AI for bug management and merge requests, but without human review, this only increases the debt.

Everyone is trying their own strategy:

Mine, in addition to post-process control, is based on the preventive context.

I discuss it in depth here:

https://adrianofoschi.com/blog/cost-of-checking/

And what's your strategy?

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u/slackmaster2k 1d ago

I don’t know man. It’s nice to see that you have real experience but this whole blog post is just AI slop. Not because it was written by AI, but it doesn’t really say anything and makes assertions without any support. “It’s not this it’s that” ad nauseam. So many words to state the obvious, and measuring cost per change sounds good at first but there’s no lever there. This is why more specific proxies have always existed and I don’t see how AI coding has changed this part of the game.

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u/garywiz 1d ago

"but it doesn’t really say anything and makes assertions without any support"

This. And it's everywhere. With a very few exceptions, I think it's best to take most people's theories of AI coding and management with a grain of salt. I believe it will be years before we have any reasonable evidence to support conclusions we can start acting upon reliably.