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Vibe Coding2026-06-15 · source-backed
An open-source tool (77 points on HN) constrains coding agents to do the minimum-viable change instead of over-engineering, explicitly modeling the laziest senior dev who'd rather ship two lines than rewrite a module (GitHub). It taps a real pain: agents that gold-plate, refactor things you didn't ask about, and turn a one-line fix into a 300-line PR. I lose more time reining agents in than pushing them forward. Constraint-as-a-feature is underrated.
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