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It really depends. If you're cranking out prototypes or testing ideas, it's genuinely great. But if you're familiar with the code it's very easy to spot its (many) mistakes. It's Gell-Mann amnesia.

Then again, I just caught Claude writing setTransparent(!opaque == false), opaque being a bool, on a purely vibecoded project. Which was pretty impressive. ("• You're right, that's nonsense.")



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