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Comment on: The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
I've got a few projects I've generated, along with a wholly handwritten project started in Dec.The difference I've noticed is that the act of actually typing out code made me backtrack a few times refining the possible solutions before even starting the integration tests, sometimes before even doing a compile.When generating, the LLM never backtracked, even in the face of broken tests. It would proceed to continue band-aiding until everything passed. It would add special exceptions to general code instead of determining that the general rule should be refined or changed.The reason that some de