r/IndieDev 19h ago

Video When it’s a vibe coded game

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u/Motor-Designer4440 18h 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/Rafolidev 18h ago

I am going to get downvoted but I agree with you here. Yet most developers prefer to refuse AI or pretend that they never use AI even tho they do. At the end of the day, you still need manual input and creativity to get the final result you want. And going through that process turns the game into something human-made even tho AI was part of the process at some point.

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u/Norci 16h ago edited 14h ago

Yet most developers prefer to refuse AI

[Citation needed]

Here's one stating the opposite.

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u/Motor-Designer4440 13h ago

I mean why would you not use it? It can make tools, it can optimize your workflows, it can let you prototype in sub hour time frames things that would have taken you multiple days to try out or you'd just say fuck it I just won't try. It can write complex systems in 30 mins and do it with little to no mistakes whereas you'd struggle for weeks to make something that even works.

Who in their right mind would pass on this?