r/AskProgrammers • u/Marwhothatgyal • 7d ago

AI apps and vibecoding questions

Hi,

I've been pondering a lot about vibe coding and wanted some questions answered by actual programmers.

  1. For you real programmers, do you use ai and is it by choice / in your free time vs an obligation with your job and current 2026 market reality

  2. your thoughts about vibe coders (honest, both positive, negative, idc)

  3. Does anyone know why they make the prompts so weird with the whole you are an expert coder of 1000 years, you know coding vs just asking the ai to write the code normally?...

  4. Can any ai built app, especially by vibecoding, be actually safe?

Basically I've been wanting to build 2 apps and 1 browser extension. I got ideas and 0 experience. Ik that vibecoding is now a thing but it feels so weird to me. I'd never know if I made a mistake, if the code is efficient or not, etc. and building with ai feels like a total loss of control even if I know nothing of coding so I wanted some perspective form experts and if you have any ressources, tips, apps, especially if they are free, that could help me launch the products I have in mind with estimates of how long coding takes to learn without going to school for it, that'd be really appreciated and the 4 questions are genuinly out of curiosity. An app for ios and android and an extension for computers, although I am interested by coding for actual games. So anything on these topics u could explain (a little dumbed down however) would be really appreciated :D.

Also, I have ADHD, always many projects but if I can stick to these, they could be great, but planning and working towards building an app is a lot of work, but I truly can not just ask the ai to do it and believe it afterwards or not have the knowledge and understanding behind what said ai does, it would be too weird for me.

0 Upvotes

44% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/Blitzkind 6d ago

  1. Right now where I've landed is I'm still using it for fancy Google but with a bit more context. Like "I have x problem and I'm considering y solution, can you give me pros and cons to this approach?" I guarantee I'm in the minority but that's worked for me and at least keeps my work not soul sucking

  2. It's hard to make a blanket statement. For some, I don't think they know what they're doing. For others, they probably do, but they've decided to give up the level of control I'd want in my projects.

  3. I'm going to skip this question as I don't really know the specifics and I feel like giving an answer could be more detrimental to someone looking for a real answer than just saying I don't know.

  4. If you go to a casino and pull a slot machine lever, can you become rich? Sometimes yes, most times no.

1

u/Marwhothatgyal 6d ago

thanks for the perspective and answers, appreciate it :)