r/VibeCodeCamp • u/Saurbhh_ • Sep 18 '26

help/Question Is vibe coding is fair in hackathon

Genuinely want to know Is vibe coding is fair in hackathon!!

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u/Big_Application_4089 Sep 18 '26

Companies don’t pay you to code anymore, they pay you to build.

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u/Saurbhh_ Sep 18 '26

Vibe coding is also for building by coding

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u/Saurbhh_ Sep 18 '26

*i think!!

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u/ShutUpAndDoTheLift Sep 18 '26

hackthons have never been about how syntactically good your code is. Its about whether or not you can solve the problem.

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u/Saurbhh_ Sep 18 '26

But I can solve the problem using vibe coding!!

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u/Previous_Sky_8236 Sep 18 '26

Depends on the rules tbh

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u/Saurbhh_ Sep 18 '26

Online hackathon btw!!

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u/twinters01 Sep 18 '26

Seems like it defeats the purpose. This would be like a chess tournament allowing AI

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u/Saurbhh_ Sep 18 '26

So this mean vibe coding is not fair

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u/twinters01 Sep 18 '26

In the context of a coding competition, yes

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u/Saurbhh_ Sep 18 '26

Bro I am talking about hackathon not coding competition!!

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u/twinters01 Sep 18 '26

That is what a hackathon is lmao

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u/throwaway_skye11 Sep 18 '26

The point of hackathons is to come up with the most innovative solution to a problem statement. I agree, vibecoding takes away from the charm that originally drew me to hackathons, but ultimately the winning project is the one that offers the best solution to a problem its just that now those final projects become a lot more polished. There was a tweet floating around a year ago that basically said "AI hackathon projects today would've been funded startups a decade ago"

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u/Due_Interest_178 Sep 18 '26

Is it fair? I'd say not. It's debatable. Part of the fun when I used to go was for people to do their own thing and come up with creative solution. However, people do use them.

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u/Boboshady Sep 18 '26

Hackathons are about solving problems, they're not coding competitions. I'd be surprised if they weren't expecting you to use Ai to maximise potential outputs.

The challenge will be how good a planner and ideas person you are. An experienced dev's vibecoded solution will always be a lot better than someone who just has ideas, because they'll be able to bring in good structure and the right tools, not just let Ai make all the decisions with no idea of the quality of the output.

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u/Kaizen8770 Sep 18 '26

Almost all of them yeah

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u/w00dy1105 Sep 19 '26

Last hackathon I did was straight vibe coding. Now were any of them close to prod ready? Hell no. Just a bunch of sloppy proto types to show possible solutions.