New ask Hacker News story: I Built a 22k-Line App with Zero Coding Experience. Or, how to control agents
I Built a 22k-Line App with Zero Coding Experience. Or, how to control agents 2 by JasonGravy | 0 comments on Hacker News. There’s a lot of hype (and hate!) right now around "Vibe Coding". And rightly so. The idea that you can build out software entirely by kicking back and commanding AI agents to do the typing for you is an incredibly exciting concept, but most people trying this are hitting a brutal reality after just a few days: AI Code Rot. First it works. Then it fails. And you have no idea how to fix it. I decided to build an app: a complex dinner scheduling engine. It imports recipe URLs and outputs schedules, shopping lists, and a host of tips for feeding big groups that I’ve developed after 15 years of running a weekend supper club. Central to the project was importing URLs and breaking down (often badly written) steps into machine-understandable units which could be timed and rebuilt into slick schedules. I was told more than once that this would be ‘impossible’....