just spent an hour helping a friend debug some lovable-generated code. he's on hour 6 with this bug

super bearish on vibecoding with llms. they're great for prototyping but cannot be trusted

we need a different model architecture that can actually understand and reason about the code

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Part of me agrees but also so much software in the world is little, in-house apps that are used by 3 people and are very janky.

If people can write these themselves without needing a programmer, there’s huge value in that.

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Totally! @hillis and I have been talking a lot about the new wave of simple hyperlocal apps that ppl can now build for their friends. Feels like the ceiling is very low atm though.