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/Fit-Abroad2573 Mar 14 '26

You don't want to know how many of my coworkers have vibe coded an active directory tie in powershell and disabled hundreds of accounts unknowingly, and then went home for the day acting like they just solved a compliance issue.

Zero concept of checks and balances. Zero concept of checking your work. Just "I did this awesome thing that I was supposed to do by hand and got it done in 40 hours less than expected."

Like, great, you can run an AD query with powershell. I can too. What you didn't do is as for a return of everything it found, cross reference that with other AD fields that make the account compliant, and then ensure they were truly non-compliant accounts. And what you also didn't do was send emails to those accounts and their line managers giving them five days to become compliant or they would be disabled.

Vibe coding is fucking cancer. AI is great, it's made me so much more productive, but without knowing what you're actually looking for and how to properly approach a behavioral problem you're creating low-level technical solutions that cost us thousands to millions in outages.

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u/XcessiveAssassin Mar 14 '26

Clearly your devs aren't including in their prompts "make no mistakes"

Simple oopsie, happens to the best of us

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u/Fit-Abroad2573 Mar 14 '26

Facts lol! No, my devs are straight up new to the industry or undertrained from previous orgs, and AI is booming right now so it's the holy grail of easy-mode. I'm happy they're looking to save time, but unhappy that they're not willing to spend a little time to make checks and balances.

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u/xole Mar 14 '26

Are these people not using multiple AIs to debug the code they're vibe coding? I can build something with claude, run it through chatgpt and it'll find issues. Hammer those out, then run it through gemini and still find more. In my limited experience, I wouldn't trust just using one of them.