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Vibe Coding2026-07-12 · source-backed
In a July 11 post (132 points on HN), the Fields Medalist describes a modern coding agent porting roughly two dozen of his old Java applets to JavaScript in hours, with only one minor bug in the output, while the agent surfaced two bugs in his original code he was previously unaware of (Terence Tao). Then he had it build new visualization tools for special relativity and the Gilbreath conjecture. This is the legacy-migration use case at its best. The agent didn't just translate, it audited. Primary-source evidence from someone with no incentive to hype it.
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