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[–] miridius@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It means that you created the code via natural language instructions to an LLM as opposed to typing by hand. You still need to verify its work, review and understand the code to at least some extent, and go through many iterations before it's production ready.

Some people create vibeslop without looking at the code at all which is fine for a throwaway hobby project or personal tools but it will very quickly turn into unmaintainable garbage if you don't guide the architecture, redirect away from bad approaches, review the code carefully and make the LLM fix any issues, ensure proper testing, and periodically refactor and improve code quality. If that sounds like hard work then that's because it is, doing a good job with agentic accelerated engineering is hard work, but you can still build 2x-5x faster at the same quality level than if you typed it by hand. And that's with current models, they're only getting better