I wonder, how close can we get to a reasonable simulator for testing software engineering practices before inflicting them onto the real world?
theturtletalks 6 hours ago||
Make it work, make it right, make it fast, in that order
Make it right is the refactoring
kattenelvis 5 hours ago||
You can tell this is BS because there's no way that app is actually functioning at all. Fully vibe-coded, all that? No, I don't believe it.
defrim 6 hours ago||
Being a bit cheeky here -- the amount of comments on this post is a telltale sign of how common / desirable refactoring is for the majority of developers (xD). It isn't our fault though, maybe if those pesky managers read this article then they would understand..
sltr 6 hours ago|
It's been on HN for 45 minutes. It's before 9am on the west coast
gowld 3 hours ago||
> Claude.ai was better than Claude Code
Why is this something users have to distinguish? Why can't these generative AIs choose good names for things?
paxys 6 hours ago||
I have been enforcing this myself through AGENTS files and other explicit instructions. What’s crazy is that none of the existing coding harnesses include such instructions by default. Two lines in Claude Code and Codex and the entire world would be writing better, more efficient code. Makes me believe in the conspiracy that these companies want more verbose code and longer files because it directly results in higher token usage.