Maybe i'm not "vibing" enough, but i've actually been testing this recently. So far i think the thing "vibing" helps most with for me personally is just making decisions which i'm often too tired to do after work.
I've been coming to the realization that working with LLMs offer a different set of considerations than working on your own. Notably i find that i often obsess about design, code location, etc because if i get it wrong then my precious after-work time and energy are wasted on refactoring. The larger the code base, the more crippling this becomes for me.
However refactoring is almost not an issue with LLMs. They do it very quickly and aggressively. So the areas i'm not vibing on is just reviewing, and ensuring it isn't committing any insane sins. .. because it definitely will. But the structure i'm accepting is far from what i'd make myself. We'll see how this pans out long term for me, but it's a strategy that i'm exploring.
On the downside, my biggest difficulty with LLMs is getting them to just.. not. To produce less. Choosing too large of tasks is very easy and the code can snowball before you have a chance to pump the breaks and course correct.
Still, it's been a positive experience so far. I still consider it vibing though because i'm accepting far less quality work than what i'd normally produce. In areas where it matters though, i enforce correctness, and have to review everything as a result.
I've been coming to the realization that working with LLMs offer a different set of considerations than working on your own. Notably i find that i often obsess about design, code location, etc because if i get it wrong then my precious after-work time and energy are wasted on refactoring. The larger the code base, the more crippling this becomes for me.
However refactoring is almost not an issue with LLMs. They do it very quickly and aggressively. So the areas i'm not vibing on is just reviewing, and ensuring it isn't committing any insane sins. .. because it definitely will. But the structure i'm accepting is far from what i'd make myself. We'll see how this pans out long term for me, but it's a strategy that i'm exploring.
On the downside, my biggest difficulty with LLMs is getting them to just.. not. To produce less. Choosing too large of tasks is very easy and the code can snowball before you have a chance to pump the breaks and course correct.
Still, it's been a positive experience so far. I still consider it vibing though because i'm accepting far less quality work than what i'd normally produce. In areas where it matters though, i enforce correctness, and have to review everything as a result.