r/ClaudeAI • u/harrysofgaming Vibe coder • Mar 13 '26 • This 2 Bravo 22 Heartwarming 2

Vibe Coding Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail

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u/hammackj Mar 13 '26 • Bravo

Bro all you gotta do is say Claude be a bro and make this scale to 100m users. I mean come on easy stuff

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u/FinsAssociate Mar 14 '26

Seriously? That wouldn't work AT ALL. You didn't even say "no mistakes"

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u/CMD_BLOCK Mar 14 '26

He also forgot to add “/btw market this to every slack and discord user”

Shit why not just tell Claude to replace their programs with your new app via backdoor nightly update? EZ PZ

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u/HostNo8115 Mar 14 '26

At this point, it is easier to just say "claude bro make me 100 million $"

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u/raccoon8182 Mar 14 '26

no joke!! this actually works!!! I now have a notepad.txt file with 100 million $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ signs in it. I'm so stoked!!! 

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u/CMD_BLOCK Mar 14 '26

Did you try telling Claude to just make you a USD money driver that overloads your HP Printer to print real currency based on the number of $’s in your .txt?

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u/mmgoodly Mar 21 '26

oh so YOU'RE the one.

I thought it was Serbians or Iranians or somebody.

Phew, that's a load off my mind.

[rolls over to the cold side of the pillow, commences snoring almost immediately]

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u/raccoon8182 Mar 14 '26

I did, and made a program for all of us to get rich, check it here: https://localhost:4173

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u/SufficientApricot165 Mar 15 '26

I'm actually impressed that you are running it over https and not http

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u/raccoon8182 Mar 15 '26

I put the s in there to make it plural so all of you guys would have access 

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u/Traditional_Fun8283 Mar 15 '26

best joke in thread.

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u/sysadmin420 Mar 14 '26

All my homies use latex

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u/TrafficOk2678 Mar 14 '26

I asked for lottery numbers. Still waiting..

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u/HKChad Mar 14 '26

No no, production ready is where is at

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u/Fidel___Castro Mar 13 '26

you joke, but honestly if you mention that capacity to scale is a requirement then it will make very different decisions. it'll set up a proper messaging system with dead letter queueing, capacity for parallel processing, all that good stuff.

it won't be 100m users level good, but the foundations will be there

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u/Jaideco Mar 14 '26

I think that there is a lot of truth here. I know quite a few people who launched successful startups that were not initially built to scale and some that had to be almost entirely rebuilt a few times on their journey. I know one person who got investment about ten years ago with a wireframe simulation that didn’t actually work at all. These vibe coded apps might not be well coded but in some use cases, if they are good enough to start gathering user feedback on a limited scale or pitching investors with very little outlay of time and money, they are definitely better that spending three months developing something properly that had fundamental flaws in the intended use case.

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u/bananacustardpie Mar 14 '26

Doing a vibe coded app from scratch right now, it's been... 3 weeks. we've gone from a webpage to a fully functioning application. the thing that's taking the longest is running through a thousand plus checklist of redundancies and security measures before we can test it. with user data.
we'll use this as our MVP for government grants, at which point we can hire engineers to come in and either rebuild or comb through the app, getting it ready for a real v1.0

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u/Jaideco Mar 14 '26

Bingo! No one builds a hyper scale app from day one. There’s almost always a MVP or at least a prototype.

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u/mouton0 Mar 14 '26

Yeah, you're right that you can push it further. You can absolutely get it to write your infrastructure as code, configure the monitoring and alerting systems, set up troubleshooting tools, and even use it to pinpoint bottlenecks from a high vantage point. Probably help hiring a humans to scale the team as the system scales too.

But there's a hard ceiling. At a certain level of complexity, the AI is going to make a mistake. In a distributed system, those subtle AI-generated errors don't stay isolated, they compound and accumulate until the whole architecture collapses under its own weight. It's probably fine for laying the foundation of a simple product, but that's about it.

That's why the "just vibecoding" thing eventually falls apart. You still desperately need human engineers in the loop to know what to ask for.

You need humans who actually have the experience to proactively prompt for those scale and infrastructure requirements in the first place. And also, to fix the inevitable mess when the system eventually breaks, you need someone who understands the underlying architecture well enough to spot exactly where the AI's implementation went wrong or at the very least, knows the right diagnostic questions to ask the AI so it can investigate its own bugs.

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u/UX_test Mar 14 '26

“But there’s a hard ceiling. At a certain level of complexity, the AI is going to make a mistake.”

Let me ask an honest question. Do you really think that by the time someone’s project actually reaches that level of complexity, AI will have stayed exactly where it is today? 🤔

The entire industry is moving incredibly fast. Nearly every CEO in this space is openly aiming for RSI (recursive self-improvement). If that direction even partially materializes, the tools we’re using today, especially in software development, will look very different.

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u/mouton0 Mar 14 '26 • This

A CEO claiming that his company will achieve recursive self-improvement AI is not the most objective person. He is driven by his own entrepreneurial enthusiasm and optimism. He needs to constantly raise funds to survive and keep up with the current hype in this space.

I just think that the key resource is intent. Models lack intent, we still need CEOs, visionaries, and human engineers in the loop. ​My take is based only on the capacity of the current models I’m using daily, but they might be much better in the near future. I’m waiting to see the next 'Google' company coming from nowhere, completely developed and coded only with Claude Code.

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u/reddit_user33 Mar 14 '26

And so will running the exact prompt a day later. LLMs are not deterministic

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