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New comment by tipoffdosage904 in "I de-vibed a vibe-coded NLP app"

tipoffdosage904 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:07:00 +0000

Earlier this year I built a local app called How I Prompt that analyzes your AI coding conversations and gives you a prompt/persona breakdown.

The first version was very much vibe-coded. It looked good, but once I audited it properly I found several issues:

- the behavioral axes used to generate prompting personas were heavily correlated and mostly measuring prompt length

- one persona was mathematically unreachable

- the pipeline was counting logs / tool noise / machine-generated text as human prompts (this was the highest LOE for me to clean the data myself)

- the whole thing had a stronger appearance of rigor than actual rigor

I wrote up the rebuild here: https://theasymptotic.substack.com/p/how-i-de-vibed-a-vibe-c...

Repo: https://github.com/eeshansrivastava89/howiprompt

What I changed in v2:

- much more aggressive data cleaning

- simpler feature-based scoring using logistic regression instead of embeddings (something I understand better)

- external prompt datasets for broader validation

- a more transparent 2-axis system that seems to behave much better than the original

It runs locally and doesn't upload your prompt data anywhere. Point your agent at the repo to validate yourself.

Would especially love feedback from people who have worked on behavioral measurement, NLP evaluation, or human/AI interaction. I'm definitely not a domain expert. One of the main things I wanted to document here was the difference between "AI helped me ship a prototype fast" and "this is actually a sound measurement system."

I de-vibed a vibe-coded NLP app

tipoffdosage904 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://theasymptotic.substack.com/p/how-i-de-vibed-a-vibe-coded-nlp-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661906

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by tipoffdosage904 in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

tipoffdosage904 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:23:15 +0000

This is actually a GREAT example of vibe-coding + skill.

New comment by tipoffdosage904 in "Agentic Coding for Non-Vibe Coders"

tipoffdosage904 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:45:38 +0000

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Great step forward towards a pragmatic approach to truly leveraging agentic coding to increase productivity and not slop. Love this.

New comment by tipoffdosage904 in "Agentic Coding for Non-Vibe Coders"

tipoffdosage904 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:06:18 +0000

My workflow for building side projects and work tools with AI coding agents that actually survive past the first month. Covers model choices (Claude Opus, Codex, Qwen), a docs-first approach (PITCH/ARCHITECTURE/IMPLEMENTATION), guardrails, context management via slash commands, and what I stopped using (MCP servers, multi-agent teams, instruction files). Includes dogfooding results — what shipped and what broke.

Agentic Coding for Non-Vibe Coders

tipoffdosage904 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:06:18 +0000

Article URL: https://theasymptotic.substack.com/p/agentic-coding-for-non-vibe-coders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294956

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

The Dopamine Trap of AI Coding

tipoffdosage904 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:24:26 +0000

Article URL: https://theasymptotic.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-trap-of-ai-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124470

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tipoffdosage904 in "The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions"

tipoffdosage904 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:51:58 +0000

I hope this includes gym memberships!

New comment by tipoffdosage904 in "The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions"

tipoffdosage904 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:51:46 +0000

I hope this included gym memberships!