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Maybe make a video of how you're vibecoding a valuable project in an existing codebase, and how agents are saving you time by running your tools in a loop.


Seriously… thats the one thing I never see being posted? Is it because Agent mode will take 30-40 minutes to just bookstrap a project and create some file?


Well no, the reality of this workflow is the farcica, abject failures unleashed on the Dotnet codebase a week ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152


It takes like 2-6 minutes to do that, depending on the scope of the project


So they can cherry pick the 1 out of 10 times that it actually performs in an impressive manner? That's the essence of most AI demos/"benchmarks" I've seen.

Testing for myself has always yielded unimpressive results. Maybe I'm just unlucky?


Livestream would be fair.




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