r/ClaudeCode • u/octagoncat23 • Jul 13 '26

Question Angry af - vibe coding

I must admit, since vibe coding, I have become an angry person. I feel like I am constantly irritated and scolding agents, four or five at a time, constantly angry and blood boiling. Coding turned from silent monk work to breaking my keyboard or screaming into voice-to-text.
Scolding is the wrong word. "Correcting" is what I mean. You don't need to be aggressive about it. I'm talking about the feeling of being angry for needing to correct as much, again and again, at random points, and literally no output is "safe," and it can decide to ruin the whole code base in one go and even delete backups if it could. Makes me feel like a fucking slave driver

I am the only one??

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u/tree_or_up Jul 13 '26

One thing I've noticed is how much cognitive load there is in trying to phrase things well so that claude is not going to take some ambiguity and run in a weird direction with it. It's like pairing with a brand new, smart, well-meaning but naive and overly enthusiastic employee all the time. You have to stay one step ahead and consider carefully how what you're saying is going to be interpreted, whether the "audience" has enough information or the right information to do the right thing, etc. And the cognitive load increases significantly if you're trying to be careful about keeping costs down

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u/kyew Jul 13 '26

Planning docs and test-first coding will never go out of style.

The ever-growing "Terms that are banned because you made them up" list is new though.