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Posted by allisdust 3 hours ago

The Vibe Tax(insufferable.dev)
55 points | 38 commentspage 2
hmokiguess 1 hour ago|
Needs more info, has a good storyline but I am left trying to understand the overall pattern and trend implied there.
pgt 2 hours ago||
Pre-October 2025, maybe yes. But now? Couldn't disagree more. There is no insight in this post.
zahlman 40 minutes ago|
The post was published today by someone who is clearly making satirical reference to frontier models ("Pol" alludes to GPT-5.6 Sol).
esafak 2 hours ago|
Create a spec and have a dumb model execute it. Problem solved.
aDyslecticCrow 1 hour ago||
That workflow itself is what the author is calling a "vibetax". Models are getting worse for users that must review every line of code the models edits or adds. Models are writing more line of code, changing more lines of code,executing more tools, and making it harder for the user to monitor, control, and review.

if i wanna write a web-app or python script; the models are better than ever. If i want to fix a specific bug in a established and trusted legacy cobe-base; Haiku 4.6 does a better job than Opus 5.0, because it does what it's told and nothing more.

The author wanted a todo-list starting-point; realistically 200 rows of html+CSS without the back-end. Heck, they may not even want to make a todo-app, but thought a todo-app would be a decent starting-point. So why would we ever want a model to spend a weeks worth of tokens on everything except the request the user asked? This is not a cost issue; this is a control issue.

hleszek 2 hours ago|||
Ask the AI to create a detailed spec according to a few simple requirements. Review the spec yourself and correct what you want changed. Then ask the AI to implement the spec. Each time you request something new, ask the AI to update the spec as well.
add-sub-mul-div 1 hour ago||
This so much more annoying and circuitous than writing code.
blackqueeriroh 32 minutes ago|||
Then just write the code, my man! This guy in this post is CHOOSING to use the LLM.

Choose what makes you happy!

esikich 1 hour ago|||
It isn't because I'm doing something else while it churns away.
tomasphan 1 hour ago||
Dumb models will make more mistakes even with good spec no? They lack capacity to verify (to be introspective) and will pattern match over reasoning.
esafak 1 hour ago||
No, it works great. Just make it smart enough to get the job done, and have the smart model review it at the end.