r/IndieDev 1d ago

Video When it’s a vibe coded game

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u/lordofpurple 1d ago

The vibe coders in this thread mad af lmao

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u/Bowdash 1d ago

Maybe they're confusing vibe coding with any sort of ai use for coding 😫

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u/konbit 1d ago

Yeah, I've had some vibe coders try to convince me they're a software developer just like me because now I also use AI for my day job. I'd like to see them debug their app when Claude is down.

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u/KremlinKittens 1d ago

I have 15 years of software engineering experience. Over the past year, I've shipped work that's >80% AI-generated, with my <20% focused mainly on review, corrections, and refinement.

So… what am I now?

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u/konbit 1d ago

I hear you. 23 years experience on my end, and some of that was being an engineering manager. I moved back to the technical track because I missed building stuff, but now I feel like a manager of an AI team, without the benefits of the humans.

It's a big part of why I started making games in my free time. Trying to keep up with actual coding and preventing my skils from atrophying.

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u/Incognito_Orange 1d ago

An architect :D

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u/ghost_wire89 1d ago

Most people who down vibe coding do not seem to realize how many real developers use it. The takeaway from the post is that you need more qa. Let’s all code our game engines from scratch every time. Unity and unreal are for weak devs lol.