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Yeah I have had some luck with vibe coding Nix but also I've found you have to be extremely cautious. It bullshits a LOT more than with other coding things I use LLMs for. This has led me on a couple of wild goose chases.

I think it helps to have comments like

# AN AI WROTE THIS BIT, REUSE WITH CAUTION



It guided me to write the Nix expression to package the grpc libs, then it implemented a complete CSI interface with hostPath mounts that I could tweak afterwards. Also very good at making Kubernetes manifests, and CRD manifests and other config-like things.




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