Using AI + reading docs
Yes, vibe coding is really cool as it should be. But have you ever tried going a bit slow and also reading the docs and understanding what AI is writing? It's so satisfying, to be honest.
I was trying to implement auth to a Next.js project and Claude 3.7 Sonnet was really struggling with that. However, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro did successfully implemented it and I was so happy. But I decided to re-do the authentication, but I was also going through the generated code this time; I was surprised that how easy the auth implementation was as compared to earlier when I was just asking AI to fix the issues again and again. If I had just followed the docs, it would have taken me a lot less time and I would have also felt more confident vibe coding.
Sometimes, it does feel that I don't need to read the code and let's just get it over with. But I am trying my best to, at least, just have a casual look at the code that AI is generating.
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