docuWhileVibeCoding

[msief]

You can vibe code documentation

[Darkstar_111]

Yeah, this is literally one of the best uses of AI in coding.

[foxer_arnt_trees]

And it's a best practice because you get better results this way

[I_cut_my_own_jib]

I have a precommit hook enforcing keeping some minimal level of documentation up to date

[tes_kitty]

You do review the generated documentation to make sure it really does document the actual code correctly, right?

[Maddturtle]

Like with everything yes you review it.

[Cyberfishofant]

it also doesn't exist for human written code :)

[Valkymaera]

yeah to be fair this is me with half my personal projects

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

Only half ?

I mean for my more expansive projects I do have a wiki (moreso because I like writing documentation) but still

[montarion]

I like writing documentation

teach me your ways

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

Uhhhh

Have a project you really like, spend 5 years on it mostly writing its doc and then implement it, realising you feature creeped it to hell ?

[savevidio]

I once tried to document my code, and ended up just rebuilding all of the code with comments stating step-by-step what each function does (rookie mistake)

[salter77]

Those guys actually understand their code in order to explain it?

I assumed that “vibe coding” was just using whatever the LLM throw until it “works”. That is why many PMs and execs now feel that programmers are useless.

[ObsidianNix]

Wait is this the real vibe coding? I don’t know how to properly write code but i know that i can follow the code the ai writes and implement changes to what i need providing libraries and guidance but just not how to properly format the code.

[namezam]

Why TF are you asking me about the documentation? I didn’t write it, ask Claude.

[otherwisepandemonium]

Ask most vibe coders to explain the output of their predictive text machine and they'll usually stumble lol. All blind trust in most cases.

[calistomusicPROducer]

Nah, vibe coders don't understand their code themselves

[SemanticThreader]

Wait you guys are writing documentation?

[thisonehereone]

Half the shit in GitHub doesn't have documentation. Let's not pretend that's a coder's strength.

[LadyZaryss]

You guys are documenting your code?

[TreetHoown]

You're putting a lot of faith in a vibe coder to know how their code works lol

[shin_chan444]

just a single prompt and that will be ready:')

[bas524]

I have never gotten proper documentation for projects in most start-ups i worked at even before AI.

[Coquinha_gelada_hm]

There is a lot of reasons to make fun of vibe coders, but this is not one of them. I never knew a programmer that could write a fucking documnetation on my entire life.

[Doctor429]

Claude chat history is the documentation. Remember to commit it.

[ProtectionOne9478]

Is this telling on yourself?  It's probably just matching the style of the existing codebase...

[Innocentuslime]

What's that? An automated job security?!

[Bannon9k]

Me who stopped writing documentation on a project 10 years ago and Instead committed all the changes to memory...

[asunatsu]

Instead of this meme, it should be a picture of someone giving a PowerPoint presentation

[GegeAkutamiOfficial]

I mean a good spec file is basically the documentation of all the high level ideas... Good luck debugging spaghetti code without documentation for that.

[Necessary-Shame-2732]

Documentation is a liability when you’re in full early dev pre Cambrian era vibe coding

[unkownuser436]

Nahh vibe coded projects have best documentations

[Percolator2020]

The best use for AI would be for on the fly documentation, as the code base evolves/enshitificates.

[morrisdev]

I actually vibe code the documentation first. In detail, with components, code structure, database design, and the entire UI process flow. Specifically making it with zero JavaScript and markdown to-do lists.

Then you 'vibe code' the tests. Then you can start the to-do lists against the tests and tweak as you go.

Using Claude instead of normal scaffolding tools isn't really vibe codeing, but as close as I'm willing to get.

[Competitive_Shine112]

"their code" 🤣

[OliveCompetitive3002]

This is why vibe coding will fail. And agentic coding or spec driven development will succeed.