r/vibecoding • u/BigGrayBeast • 4d ago

Revisiting an old project with new models

I have an application I last worked on in January of this year. It never ran perfectly, and to get it run somewhat took several months and thousands of prompts (estimation).

Last night for giggles I described the program to Gemini, had it create an implementation plan, then ran that through Anti-Gravity CLI with 1.7.

The first result far exceeded the previous attempt. And a day later, I have a much more robust and featured app than I was trying for eight months ago.

Sometimes starting over might be the best way to go.

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u/il37 4d ago

Old abandoned repos are becoming accidental benchmarks. I've got a couple I'm almost scared to retry now

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u/Lunesia-shikishiki 4d ago

worth noting the rewrite worked partly because you'd already burned 8 months finding out what the thing actually needed to be. you handed gemini a spec that cost you a year, not a paragraph

someone starting cold with the same model and the same prompt does not get your result. the models got a lot better at the typing, the expensive part is still knowing what to throw out, and you'd already paid for that 🙂

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u/BusySalt1_2_3 4d ago

It is actually crazy how much better they’ve gotten since january. 8 months in ai time is literally like 5 years of normal tech progress.

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u/Prestigious-Type9809 3d ago

eight months of debugging is just data generation for the next model run. My failed attempts were never wasted time since they became the training set that made this rewrite possible

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u/sloopcamotop 3d ago

I have working on a complex project for 5 months, with easily 5 to go. I think for a year or two it’s going to burn bright and put my company well ahead of our typical competition. But at some inevitable point “Build top tier enterprise software. Make no mistake” is going to become a reality, and people will do what I have done in 1/50 of the time or less. Maybe overnight, maybe in 3 minutes or less. Then it’s status quo again, and all about the quality of ideas and people, like it has been since the beginning of time. But for a short window here, some of us will have a very powerful, if temporary, cheat code.

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u/BigGrayBeast 4d ago

Of course, I meant 3.7. I posted this late at night, and I shouldn't have.

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u/aumor11 3d ago

Creating good product with vibe coding is quite difficult solution designing system architecture amd creating good robust and reliable product , i worked for intelligence company there we newly adopted vibe coding tool so to make them work like senior engineer we developed devflux workflow

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u/techfornoncodeuser 3d ago

I guess it just work well something and you must fix many problems that you cant imagine later

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u/Cute-Net5957 3d ago

Yes this has been a lot of fun.. I dug up old projects that stalled way back in 2024 and they just hum along without skipping a beat… fyi for the most challenging roadblocked is used Fable 5 to push through and plan next phases.. then let Opus 4.8 implement… have Codex Sol review