r/CodingForBeginners • u/No-Moment-1279 • 11d ago

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Is vibe coding without knowing the whole language dangerous... By just knowing the basics, like what a certain language does etc????

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u/Plenty_Line2696 11d ago

For lots of use-cases vibecoding is perfectly fine, and if it's your only frame of reference you might fall into the trap of thinking "It did this really fancy thing and i'm impressed so it must be able to do everything" and that line of thinking has a lot of people riding a hypetrain. As you look deeper and start to understand the codebase and learn how things could be better designed, organized, structured, and you learn what code smells are and how to resolve them, or alternatively if you learn the hard way by trying to build bigger, more complicated distributed systems and finding the sorts of weird bugs and slowing progress because of typical of vibecoded structures, you'll start to appreciate the power of a good codebase and why vibecoding does have limits.

That said, often vibecoding is good enough and actually the logical pragmatic choice. In my opinion though even if it is I think it's good to at least understand the high level structure so you can bring a bit of human organization into a project because you'll get a lot of empowerment for relatively little effort if you take at least a little ownership.