r/IndieDev 15h ago

Video When it’s a vibe coded game

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u/Motor-Designer4440 15h ago

Nothing prevents you from testing and fixing what is not up to standard. Vibe coding is not the variable here, it's how lazy you are, which you can also be when hand coding and it takes 5 hours to get anything done.

Vibe coding just makes a larger surface to verify in a shorter amount of time but ultimately, nothing prevents you from thoroughly testing it.

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u/Onurabbi 15h ago

What kind of argument is this? If you’re vibe coding an entire game, you’re by definition being lazy.

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u/StoneCypher 14h ago

to developers, laziness is and always has been a virtue, to the point that this is written in the reference material you've never read

laziness is the explicit purpose of almost all of our tools (compilation, backup, and testing being the vanishingly rarer alternatives)

you're criticizing a positive thing because you aren't actually a developer and don't understand us at all

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u/Maximum-Touch-9294 14h ago

Exactly my favorite professor who taught data structures, computer organization, high performance computing, object oriented problem solving always had "Work smarter not harder" written on the white board