Ok #vibecoding fans.. here's Reason #76 for why #AI #codebots aren't ready to supplant us #developers.
Working on a #CLI that manipulates files; unhandled exception appears! Its late so I paste the exception+ #stacktrace into my notes2self.txt, go to bed.
Today, remember the #exception, go handle/fix/trap it. Still drops exception. WTF. Tearing hair out, I keep prompting Copilot, changing the model used, I have refactored whole swaths of code following its advice. Getting nowhere.
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Just improved the display of error messages in Kitten¹.
They should be far more robust now.
Run `kitten update` to get the latest.
![Screenshot of error message in browser: There’s a cute illustration of a kitten playing with a ball of purple yarn.
The error code (in pink) is 500. The error message reads ‘ReferenceError: meow is not defined’
Under that is a Stack trace split into two sections, ‘From your app’ and ‘From Kitten’.
In the first section, there’s a coed snippet shown with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and striped lines (white/pink):
export default () => kitten.html`
${meow}!
`
The ‘m’ in meow has a pink arrow head (caret) pointing to it.
The stack trace message reads:
While running PageRoute.default [as _handler]
in /index.page.js (line 2, column 5)
In the From Kitten section the following stack messages are visible:
While running PageRoute.lazilyLoadedHandler
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 239183, column 31)
While running loop
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 203214, column 65)
While running next
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 203215, column 73)
While running Array.<anonymous>
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 239777, column 9)](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/208/753/181/919/253/original/b6a6fbf2432eeba3.png "Screenshot of error message in browser: There’s a cute illustration of a kitten playing with a ball of purple yarn.
The error code (in pink) is 500. The error message reads ‘ReferenceError: meow is not defined’
Under that is a Stack trace split into two sections, ‘From your app’ and ‘From Kitten’.
In the first section, there’s a coed snippet shown with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and striped lines (white/pink):
export default () => kitten.html`
${meow}!
`
The ‘m’ in meow has a pink arrow head (caret) pointing to it.
The stack trace message reads:
While running PageRoute.default [as _handler]
in /index.page.js (line 2, column 5)
In the From Kitten section the following stack messages are visible:
While running PageRoute.lazilyLoadedHandler
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 239183, column 31)
While running loop
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 203214, column 65)
While running next
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 203215, column 73)
While running Array.<anonymous>
in /kitten-bundle.js (line 239777, column 9)")
@johnsundell thanks for great recent episode of #StackTrace. All that talk about game controllers got me thinking about game development. My kids are getting bored with Mario Maker 2 and want to start making a 2D game. I’ve built apps with SwiftUI and am comfortable with Swift, but I’m not sure if I should start with SpriteKit or Unity. I don’t see many professional games built in SpriteKit so I’m thinking that learning Unity might be a better approach. Any suggestions?
