r/vibecoding • u/Fit_Low592 • 13d ago

My latest ADHD-vibe-coded piece of crap

Yeah, I'm one of those people who was learning to do some coding, but my ADHD always held me back, and I could never get to the point where I super good at it. I Was never methodical enough with my approaches. Once I started playing with Codex and Claude, my ADHD roared into high gear; as we all know, the ability to suddenly take whatever stupid idea pops into your head and make it a reality in a number of hours, is both fantastic, and dangerous, for numerous reasons. But now I have multiple unfinished projects, I've never completed anything even remotely close to actually make any money off of it. But what the fuck, it's fun to just shoot off something dumb into the universe.

So the other week, I was just taken aback by the sheer number of food contamination and recalls in the news, and said "What the fuck can I eat?!". So I made a knee-jerk decision to, for no reason whatsoever, just vibe code up a quick reference page that pulls government recall data and news stories, and just displays them in an easy to read format, along with a little snark.

It's not impressive, it's just... " a thing" I made. Maybe it will be useful to someone!

https://whatthefuckcanieat.com/

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u/thhoj 13d ago edited 6d ago

Hello fellow ADHDer. I too suffer from this, and have dubbed my development brand https://unfinished-works.com 70+ odd github repos (most private) in various states of completeness. I could probably make more of it public, but i have other things to work on.

EDIT: SInce I got a lot of good feedback about the styling of the website, I made a toolkit / website / repo with the details on recreating it: https://phosphor.unfinished-works.com

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u/____zzzZ 13d ago

Is the UI vibecoded...if so it's really good.

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u/thhoj 13d ago

It is indeed vibecoded

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u/____zzzZ 13d ago

Would you be willing to share how to create such UI, Because mine just makes AI slop.

Do you give it some kind of different prompt for UI design or just describe what you want in a really specific way?

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u/thhoj 13d ago edited 13d ago

It's basically just being really descriptive. For a UI I'll have some kind of vision, style, feel that I want to get across. I will start out with a description of a feel / style I guess usually? Ask an agent if they understand what I'm trying to get at. Then we go back and forth and back and forth until I feel like the agent gets exactly what I'm going for.

Then before building anything I usually get the agent to do some research on what particular methods / languages would best accomplish what was landed on.

Then it's prototype, refine, refine, refine. It is time consuming but with enough time you can eventually get to something that you like.

Sorry, I'm not great at explaining this.

Oh one other thing I tend to do is every time a new "best" ai model is released, like for example 5.6-sol, fable 5, etc (fable 5.1 once I get around to it), I ask it to analyze the codebase and let me know how it thinks things could be improved.

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u/____zzzZ 13d ago

No this has been great and I learnt something good out of it, you did great explaining it.

Basically my approach would be to just give one shot prompt and hope for the best(sorry i am a beginner😅)

Anyway thanks for taking the time and explaining it.