Hacker News
'AI Coding Without the Vibes': Peter Bloem's Ten Dogmas Invert the Agent Workflow — You Write Every Line, the Model Only Reviews
Bloem's 'craft coding' manifesto (88 points, 53 comments) proposes the exact opposite of agentic coding: 'You code and you have the AI check your work. Treat it like a reviewer.' The dogmas are concrete and restrictive — no AI in the IDE or autocomplete, copy-paste snippets rather than granting codebase access, never let the model execute code, read the docs before asking, check your own code first, and never implement a suggestion you don't understand. He frames it as viable on a $20/month subscription, and it is a useful counterweight to read against this week's harness-optimization results.
↳ Follow the thread