@davep reminds me of the “argument” I had with Gemini about a parameter file on GitHub that I asked Gemini to review. It confidently and persistently claimed the item on the sixth line was indented with an extra space.After the third “you are right, I was wrong, I’ll try to do better”, I told Gemini goodbye. It should have disclosed that it was not actually reading the file.I hope you have better luck asking it to review files.

@davep Similar to my experiences: if I know how to code what I need coded, I really like my result better than trying to explain what is in my head about the requirements to anyone or anything (AI).If I have never coded something before, then it is faster to unleash the AI on a sample program that only demonstrates the thing I need to learn to code, then I can apply all my style preferences, requirements and constraints.Any larger scope and the solution will have issues and wrong tests.

@davep > 25 days with CopilotAt age 73, and writing code without deadlines and “code reviews”, I have been doing things the way I always have (well using LibreOffice Presentations in place of PowerPoint), but had not tried any “vibe coding”.Gave Gemini an issue I had been living with for over two years (since no robotics.stackexchange, no discourse.ros.org, and no other forum posts had solved). The first mod it suggested failed differently, but when fed the new error trace… fixed!