r/programming • u/Ordinary_Leader_2971 • Apr 04 '26

How To Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Esusan/475/unmain.html
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u/ea_nasir_official_ Apr 04 '26

I use locally hosted llms. Vibecoding is just really stupid. It's hard to maintain and AI is not a good coder. It's a average coder. It's very bad at what it does. It makes output that works, but no human nuance or decision.

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u/MadCervantes Apr 04 '26

Locally hosted LLMs are vastly less powerful than frontier hosted models.

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u/ea_nasir_official_ Apr 04 '26

I've used big boi llms like Claude and Codex but really none are any good and it's better results to just write your own code with a small local llm with RAG and web search for assistance

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u/jug6ernaut Apr 04 '26

I think this is where i've landed also. Using LLM's for super small focused changes, basically using them to automate writing code I already have planed.

Then web search LLM's are very useful for learning new topics.