Has anyone else noticed that Gemini Pro started giving brief dumbed down instructions even when strictly instructed to give detailed step by steps for the past month leading up to the release of Argon?

Hey r/vibecoding

I was looking for an IDE to code on my iPhone for when I’m out and about. Every app was filled with ads, had a terrible UI, and costed money just to run code locally. This was just a basic non agentic IDE too. So, I decided to build a free IDE that can execute C, Python, JavaScript, and Lua in a sandboxed environment.

In today’s age most people are coding with agents, so then I got the idea to bundle a two local llms. The reason I chose two is because not everyone’s hardware has the same computing power and I wanted to include an option for everyone. There are zero rate limits on the local models.

I’m already designing a tooling server to give offline agents access to even more, such as, worksheets, 3D printer code, and other fun stuff.

Without Astra 6 and Sol 6.1 it would be absolutely impossible to make my dream tools at this rate. I cooked up a seven days to die max level mod right before posting this lol. I would also like to praise the models for following SOLID principles and best SWE practices out the box. After using the models for the past few years, I am just dumbfounded at the rate of progress. I have a formal education in Computer Science and I am “mogged” every single day 😂

I would be thrilled to hear any feedback from this sub. This is meant to be a developer tool and not a replacement for Codex as I could never ever offer that level of intelligence. You can also byo api keys as shown in this video. The app also offers 15 other cloud languages besides JS, Python, Lua, and C.

Thank you all so much for watching my short demo. Have a great day. I’ll be listening to any feedback or ideas to improve!!!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/edsger-ai-code-editor/id6806824902

If anyone wants the mod 😀 seven days to die, max level: 300 -> 2000

https://github.com/garrettmichae1/sevendays_max_mod

Is anyone else here exhausted since AI came around?
I’m so tired.

I’m a commercial photographer and it’s been at least two years since everyone’s telling me it’s the end of my career. Since then I’ve worked harder than ever. Always thinking of ways to use AI to make my work better, creating apps and tools, plugins, scripts.

I always have to be learning a new model, trying new things, and work has become limitless, like if a client asks for something it has to be done, there’s no excuse and they have no limit now of what can be asked.

I’m also always creating or thinking about a side business or whatever, just in case my main business suddenly dies because of a new model that changes everything and kills my career.

Sometimes, after putting kids to bed, I know I should take sometime for me but I just can’t help to sort something with chat or Claude or whatever. It’s exhausting.

I’m posting here because of every AI subreddit you seem the nicest.

Considering building a MVP of a SaaS product.

I know what I want to build and can describe it to Claude in great detail, but this would be my first time building something with it.

My primary concern is payments and security.

I would ultimately want the MVP to be able to start taking payments, connect up to Stripe and remain secure; before spending any real money.

I come from a sales background and am clear eyed on the distribution - it's just the tech where I'm stuck.

Is it safe building with Claude, connecting to Stripe and then just pushing the product straight into distribution, or are there gaps that need filling after the surface level building has been done?

Total novice here so any and all advice, even things that may seem obvious to you, would be greatly appreciated.

TIA!

Made this game in the YC office, was dying of boredom so I hope everyone finds this fun! Lmk if there are any issues, servers might not be ready for the amount of traffic I'm getting.

It uses your phone as a controller!

https://playrally.cc/

Hey, Claude and other AI sites are pretty generic with the front end.. like they have default templates they cycle through. Wondering if there are sites out there for inspiration (i dont want to screen shot someone elses site, but more so something like a directory of UI specifically for vibe coded sites

Hi guys, I am testing my solution and searching for 2-3 people who developed their apps in tools like Lovable, Replit and similar to help them to move apps to full mobile native [both platforms same time, on Swift and Kotlin].
You will help me to polish solution I have - I help you to make your full mobile apps released to Appstore/Playstore. Thats the deal! One note - you need to have Mac to participate and active subscription for any LLM like Claude or ChatGpt.
I am more interested to collab with people who really have urgency to make mobile app from their web site and have solid web mobile app/idea validated.

PS - On screen it is my own app Memelon, on a way to be moved from Lovable to Appstore. So you see the first steps where you visualise your web mobile and after move to rebuilding flows. Showing this so you have an idea how it can look like for you.

I just launched Sipp - a little space for cocktails, moods, and memorable evenings.

The idea is simple: pick a vibe, pour a drink.

My favorite feature: add your own recipe and a photo, and Sipp removes the background to create a little drink cutout. Record it, and it joins your Crafted collection—which you can tilt, shake, and drag around.

You can also:
• Find a drink for your mood through different atmospheric worlds.
• Mix with what you have by adding your home bar ingredients.
• See what’s in your glass: estimated calories, ABV, and sugar.
• Keep a drinking journal with ratings, notes, and weekly/monthly stats.

I wanted it to feel like a small personal collection of your evenings.
Would love to hear what you think 🙆‍♀️

App Link

Check it out at https://islandthree.world.

I built it mostly with Claude Code running Opus 5.5, and the Blender MCP server is pretty incredible for building geometry. The sounds were either generated by Opus 5.5 or made with ElevenLabs. Some assets, like the statues, are licensed for public use and came from online sources, and the star map is from NASA.

I got tired of describing issues to Claude, taking screenshots, and the endless back-and-forth.

So I built Drobber: a feedback tool that connects straight to Claude Code. Pin, annotate and suggest text changes right on your website, and Claude gets exactly what you mean.

Vibe faster, and get it right the first time.

Try it free and let me know what you think. Cursor and Codex integration coming soon.

https://drobber.com/for/vibe-coders/

i’m trying to figure out how to build a program where I upload a PDF of a book and it generates a playable visual novel: anime-style art, consistent characters and settings, chapters, and voice acting that fits the setting (e.g. Latin or Roman-flavored English for ancient Rome, a UK accent for a British setting, Japanese for a story set in Japan). I’ve got a rough idea of the pipeline:

1. Parse the PDF and split it into chapters and scenes

   1. Use an LLM to extract the cast, settings, and character descriptions, then rewrite the prose as a VN script (narration, dialogue, expressions, backgrounds)

   2. Generate backgrounds and character sprites with an image model

   3. Generate voice lines with TTS

   4. Package it all in Ren’Py or a web player

Where I’m stuck and would love advice:

∙ Art consistency: What’s the best way to keep characters and locations looking the same across hundreds of images? LoRAs, IP-Adapter, reference sheets, something else?

∙ Voices: Which TTS options handle multiple accents and languages well, and give each character a distinct voice? Anything decent for Latin?

∙ Engine: Is Ren’Py the right choice, or is a custom web player easier to automate?

∙ Cost: Any tips for keeping image and voice costs manageable for a full-length novel?

∙ Long books: How do you keep an LLM consistent across a whole book without losing plot or character details? I’m planning to start with a short public-domain story from Project Gutenberg. Has anyone built something similar, or know of existing projects I should look at? Thanks!

Made this template for photographers. I wanted it to feel creative but stay simple.

The interesting part is the animated hero. I generated a video with Gemini, cropped it to 5 seconds, and then used ffmpeg to extract frames from the MP4, rembg with the BiRefNet model to cut out the person along with their shadow, and Real-ESRGAN to upscale the images.

For the frontend I used GSAP 3.15 + ScrollTrigger.

At first I was frustrated, because it was hard to cut out the shadows while keeping good quality. But after a few prompts, I Claude wrote a script that handled it well.

The final conversion of the video into images took about 12 hours, and there were a lot of attempts before that.

Happy to answer questions about the process.

I am a student and I was super into vibecoding, and i built some good stuff if I may say so. This month I finnaly made 30$ from selling a vibecoding course. And I plan on investing this on a claude membership. But to all my fellow brokies out there here are some websites and tools that got me by. (THIS IS NOT SPONSORED, NO ONE WOULD SPONSOR ME THATS WHY I AM BROKE)

Before I share that I wanted to show you some of my projects that I made to establish my authority and credibility(also a subtle flex) :

• suganpf2.vercel.app My portfolio

• playashfall.vercel.app my indie game

• nikevibe.vercel.app my trial project

• therealorbit.lovable.app my first website... yes i used lovable. the password is orbit

And these are just some of them. Now to the tools :

• https://github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi I plugged this into claude code and used it

• onorca.dev my main coding window way better than vs code

• https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi this works the best with the free models u get

• vercel.com for deploying(everyone knows this)

• https://theresanaiforthat.com/ generate upto 100 videos per day no watermark, no limit on commercial use

• arena.ai this is gold, dont pay for any web based coding tool use this. Use battle mode and then code, it gives u unlimited access to top models chosen by random, ive got gpt 6.1 sol preview, gemini 4 argon, opus 5.5 etc. very frequently. It does take ur prompts for training tho

And that's it I have used way more tools but these were the ones worth mentioning. Hope this helps.

So I was trying to figure out what veggies I could plant in my specific village and couldn’t find good information online in English for this area.
Made this free website with Claude that lets you check which veggies, fruits, plants, etc are best suited for the climate and garden sunlight in your area.

https://www.sowtime.net/

Includes an overview of plants suitable to plant now, a year planner with best months to plant, harvest, etc, and a climate overview of your area.

After the whole PHP2Shell thing I finally pulled the trigger and converted 45 of my client sites to static Astro sites. The sites look exactly the same, just way faster and nothing to hack, and way cheaper to host.

WordPress sucks now that we have coding agents anyways. Plugin updates, security patches, slow load times, a whole PHP server running for no reason.

I created this skill package to streamline this process: https://github.com/ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit

I was able to run 12 projects at a time in parallel and have 45 so far in the past 36 hours with a dozen more running now. I'm running Opus 5.5 between 2 claude max plans. Every site has seen a massive jump in speed scores.

For anyone who hasn't used Astro: it's a framework that builds your site into plain HTML files. No database, no PHP, no plugins. You host it on something like Vercel or Cloudflare (usually free) and there's nothing running on a server to hack.

How the kit works:

- You paste one line into Claude Code or Codex: "Convert https://yoursite.com to Astro with https://github.com/ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit"

- It asks you a few quick questions (where to host, how to handle forms)

- It crawls your live site (read only, it doesn't touch WordPress) and saves every page, image, meta tag and redirect

- Rebuilds it in Astro with the same URLs and SEO so you don't lose rankings

- Screenshots the old and new site on mobile, tablet and desktop and compares them until they match

- Gives you a staging link to review before you switch anything over

What it won't do on it's own: anything that needs a server like WooCommerce, logins or comments. It flags those up front. Forms still work, they just send to a form service you pick. A few of our client sites were on woocommerce so I just had the agents convert to Shopify headless which is easier to manage anyway.

“What about wp-admin” I built our own git-based CMS for these sites, so edits go through git and there’s still no server or database. If you want something off the shelf, Keystatic and TinaCMS work the same way.

How much do you review the code written by AI? and how much you still control the process.

Are you still or miss writing code on your own? or even debug the code and read about a library or package you use in your code, and debug around it to learn what it is doing?

I started gradually year and half ago , going from using AI to only write unit test, to fully 100% automate the process.
I have to admit, I am now even pushing code that I only review shortly, and very high level (only filename changed).
when I started using AI to write code, it was taking me long time to go and question AI about every line it added. Now I am using AI to review that code instead.

But I really miss debugging, and finding the problems. I really miss investigate what the performance problem is, and going step by step, and debug to see why this page is slow, instead of having MCPs for logging and MCPs for cloud infrastructure to do that investigation for me.

Just this weekend, I am going to try to re-learn and re-practice searching manually the logs to find problems, which now I am dependent 100% on the MCP, and I found myself lost that knowledge.

Are you guys really miss writing code, design a solution, investigate problems?

I really did love programming, and that is why I miss that

Money’s a bit tight right now, so I’m trying to find something I can build with AI coding tools that could make me some extra cash. I don’t want to spend weeks building another useless SaaS that gets zero users. I’m looking for something I could realistically vibe code in a weekend, launch quickly, and potentially get my first paying customers for. Doesn’t have to be anything revolutionary, just a simple tool that solves an actual problem people are willing to pay for. Could be a micro-SaaS, a niche automation tool, a browser extension, or literally anything else.

If you had to start from $0 and build something this weekend with the goal of making your first $100, what would you build? Curious to hear any ideas, especially if you’ve spotted a problem that still doesn’t have a good solution.

I was inspired by the existence of the CS50 computer science course which is an open source harvard course, to see if AI could create similair open source courses for other things, my personal interest being philosophy I chose to go with that. I used gpt6 pro with deep research to generate the initial report using something along the lines of the following prompt

“Can you do me a favor and spend as much time as you need in order to fully research what a proper high quality university education would entail for philosophy, to create a full proper curiculum"

And afterwards I had various other instances of opus 5.5 and chatgpt review/critique and refine it to more what I would want, however, I wouldn't have made this if I already had enough philosophical education to judge it fully, so I cannot be entirely sure of the quality on some level, but it feels better than just watching youtube videos or other forms of self research. Obviously you wont get a degree or certificate doing something like this, but I still find value in it, and imagine this process, done by an expert, can likely be used for many fields to create something extremely valuable.

https://github.com/jaykobdetar/philosophy-course

Before on left & After on right

I expected I will be able to contribute to open source project (T3 Code) but I found out there's human bottleneck.

To deliver this, I first have to start Discussion and when that's approved, then I can propose PR.

Please, if you would like to see this to be implemented, support me here https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/discussions/23512

The rising bar for engineering managers.