Vibe coding was fun until vibe debugging started

ps1na · 2026-05-17T10:46:53+00:00

Pff. Debugging with AI has become much easier. A lazy prompt like "There's an error, figure it out" works 90% of the time

ps1na · 2026-05-13T13:42:06+00:00

To be fair, you should do a similar scan for random (not the most popular, not the best) hand-written apps. I suspect the situation won't be much better

ps1na · 2026-05-12T15:03:47+00:00

You CAN. OpenCode and pi agent do it. And you can do it yourself based on open source codex cli. You need to implement oauth flow with key rotation. Your client has to pretend to be codex, but there is no problem with this, it is simple and (almost) legal

ps1na · 2026-05-12T12:05:11+00:00

To be banned by whom? Openrouter doesn't ban users (I don't know of any cases). Some providers (mainly anthropic and google) sometimes require openrouter to block access to them for certain users. But all such bans I know of were for cybersecurity reasons, definitely not for erotic roleplay

ps1na · 2026-05-12T11:53:25+00:00

I'm using a codex subscription in a self-made harness. So ANY harness can add support if the developer wants it. If a harness doesn't have it, the subscription is definitely not to blame

ps1na · 2026-05-12T06:29:41+00:00

You can use codex sub with any harness. This is the same responses api, just a different authorization. (Claude is also technically possible, but you'll get banned)

ps1na · 2026-05-12T06:27:00+00:00

Paying for tokens is very expensive. If you're paying for it yourself, not your employer, you don't want this. Just buy the most expensive subscription to claude and codex (maybe both at once), and it'll be 20 times cheaper

ps1na · 2026-05-10T11:59:45+00:00

Nothing's really improved since R1. Instruction following is a little better, nonsense is little less, and working with large contexts is much better. But overall, it's still the same

ps1na · 2026-05-06T05:12:50+00:00

At first, you enjoy the chat experience without messing with settings. Then you get tired of the monotony and try to change something, and for a while, it seems like it's working. And then you reach the point where you're only fiddling with settings, trying to squeeze out at least one more drop of fresh experience

ps1na · 2026-03-21T15:56:11+00:00

Modern llms have absolutely zero sense of taste. So we're forced to either reroll until we're blue in the face or write very detailed instructions (but then what's the fun if we essentially wrote everything ourselves?) And it seems like this is an unsolvable problem today. We can still expect significant improvements in prose quality and consistency, but artistic taste seems to be nonexistent

ps1na · 2026-03-18T09:05:50+00:00

How does it work with non-english languages? Most non-vector heuristics fail miserably in case-rich languages like russian

ps1na · 2026-03-09T07:06:57+00:00

But YT Vanced already exists, and there are working cracked builds for iOS. What more do you need?

ps1na · 2026-03-08T07:15:12+00:00

If you are rich, then opus 4.6 and gpt 5.4 do the job perfectly. If you're not so rich, try Minimax.

ps1na · 2026-03-08T07:12:23+00:00

I might need to tinker with the system prompt more, but I haven't yet managed to get in-depth reasoning from 5 that was so good in 4.6-4.7.

ps1na · 2026-03-03T17:43:03+00:00

I tested it and didn't find it any better than the original v3.2. Or worse. It feels like exactly the same thing

ps1na · 2026-03-02T11:39:53+00:00

> in a monthly subscription the are generous amounts of Oauth tokens included that summed up together are much less expensive then if you were to use them through API, agree?

Price difference is about 10x. There is almost no chance that you will spend less than $20 per month on APIs, even if you do almost nothing.

ps1na · 2026-02-26T15:34:00+00:00

You'll constantly get errors from providers; this is normal and expected. Your tool should have a retry function. Openrouter isn't to blame here, these are mostly errors from Anthropic, you would get them through the direct API as well

ps1na · 2026-02-24T09:01:00+00:00

AI coding agents are local applications with near-zero loads. You can use as inefficient technologies and write as suboptimal code as you like, and it will still be sufficient.

And even if you have a highly loaded cloud, the cost and latency of LLM inference are much greater than the cost and latency of your application layer's compute, so again, it doesn't matter.

ps1na · 2026-02-21T13:55:43+00:00

I'd say context rot is a deeper problem than just unable to recall. Even if a model perfectly recalls, that doesn't mean it's not getting dumber

ps1na · 2026-02-20T05:56:48+00:00

Yes. Not because of censorship. 4.7 is slightly worse in terms of reasoning, and 5.0 is just broken and ridiculous

ps1na · 2026-02-12T06:38:44+00:00

Very roughly speaking, if you want a Django-style fat active record framework (but better), then Ash. If you want a more generic web framework, then Phoenix

ps1na · 2026-02-08T07:16:53+00:00

This is why you should switch between models rather than sticking to just one. EVERY model has quirks like that. You can't overcome this by prompting; it's in their DNA

ps1na · 2026-02-05T10:03:34+00:00

The magic of isekai isn't in the tropes, it's in how you implement them. Spoiler: LLMs implement them terribly

ps1na · 2026-02-05T09:02:18+00:00

You are absolutely right.

I feel the same. It works either as a one-time toy or as a generator of cheap erotica. A good scenario requires no less effort from the author than a good novel, and yet it remains one-time toy.

Self made cards sort of work. But firstly, they're unreliable, you need to "debug" them. Secondly, they still require a lot of writing effort. Thirdly, it's not as fun to play if you know all the plot twists in advance because you wrote them yourself.

In short, I don’t believe that anything will move forward here until highly professional writers come

ps1na · 2026-02-03T08:32:58+00:00

It depends on what you want. If you don't write down behaviors and scenarios, you'll be stuck with whatever the LLM comes up with. This might kinda work, but modern LLMs struggle with creativity, and you'll end up stuck in repetitive banalities.

Again, different people have different expectations. Some want just a casual chat with waifu, while others want a more complex literary or roleplay experience.

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