Vibed coded my project - Now I wanna begin the refactor process to fix this
Hello, I made a project that started off as an MVP, but I feel like I vibed coded it and now it doesn't really work well as I hoped. But I see a learning to fix this AI code. How would you begin? I'm thinking of doing a refactor to try to decrease the file size and simply reduce the number of files and of course trying to follow React best practices and maybe introduce TypeScript to help.
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2 days agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero- Split the code up into a small, modular, focused components
- Go through each component and try to understand it. If you can't, just rewrite it from scratch
- Do #2 until all the terrible code is gone
For the future, I don't recommend vibe coding (i.e. copy-pasting what the AI gives you while barely reading/understanding it). You should always understand at least 80% of what your code is doing line-by-line. If you don't, ask the AI until you do.
You should also not use AI for a high-level thinking. You should have an idea of how your project is going to look, and the components it needs to have (+ the interfaces they use to communicate to one another). Then you use AI to fill in each individual piece, testing it thoroughly each time.
I recommend this related discussion: "How to optimally use GenAI to leverage my coding prowess and become a better software engineer?"
- 0a day agoEntry-Level Software Engineer [OP]Unemployed
Yeah it was like I had a good understanding of it, but then I was using it to make new features, but I feel the way it was doing caused it to be a mess. But thank you for the tips
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