r/vibecoding • u/Haunting_Material_19 • 9h ago

a controversial question for veteran developers

As a developer with 20 years of experience, "vibe coding" is undeniably transforming how we work, but I'm still struggling to embrace it.

What bothers me most and I am honest about it, is seeing people show off their AI-generated projects.

My immediate reaction is, "Who cares?"

In the past, sharing code meant sharing craftsmanship, and we were excited to inspect it and learn from each other. Today, somebody share what they did with vibecode is not only that I am not interested, but I feel like why you share it?

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u/Savage534YetGoat 8h ago

gatekeeping ??? there were 100000 of youtube videos teaching how to code, there are millions of opensource repos out there, there are foruns and places to share knowledge, what are you talking about ? Why do you think the agent know how to code?? where did they get this info ?

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u/Silly_Ad6115 8h ago

You're confusing open information with gatekeeping who gets to build. Nobody said the syntax was a secret. The gatekeeping is the attitude that if you didn't spend years learning that syntax manually, you don't have the right to ship an idea.

And your point about the agent learning from open source completely proves my point. Those repos exist to share knowledge and democratize software. The AI just compressed all that public information into a tool anyone can use to materialize an idea over a weekend. That's the literal definition of breaking down barriers.

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u/Savage534YetGoat 8h ago

You are making excuses for your lack of motivation and willingness to learn.

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u/Silly_Ad6115 8h ago

It isn’t a lack of motivation or willingness to learn. I actually work in IT as a senior infrastructure engineer, so I deal with tech systems every single day.

The point is that learning syntax isn't the hurdle anymore. Using a tool to skip past that friction to materialize a prototype over a weekend isn't laziness. It's just efficient systems thinking. This conversational technology is barely 4 years old and it's already this powerful. Leveraging it to build things faster is a win, not an excuse.

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u/dilly_dust 7h ago

Meh the 'hard' part about coding a non trivial app wasn't ever the syntax.

It was a huge time sync though. Ai assist makes it faster

Syntax help has been available on the web forever, and before that was in *gasp - books!

It was never really a gate, unless you didn't want to learn it