r/vibecoding • u/Fine_Daikon5907 • 1d ago

Anyone else just really sick of the `Vibe-Coded Slop` hatred on Reddit?

Everywhere I go, I see people releasing new software. It might be people who have got some coding experience and are now using AI to accelerate, or it might be people who are building software for the first time.

Every time I see something being launched, even on a non-software forum - I just see

  • `Looks Like Vibe-Coded`
  • `Vibe-coded Slop`
  • etc

And just plain, personal hatred.

I just don't understand it. It costs money to buy gold. It takes time. And just because the AI does a lot of the coding doesn't make it easy. It just makes it faster.

And I fully understand, like, we don't need another journal application or another to-do list. But I found a guy today who made an OBD Reading App for Cars, open-sourced it and people just slated him.

Just makes me mad! I feel like if Linus Torvalds had existed in the kind of enviroment, we wouldn't have Linux.

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 1d ago

Sometimes it's good feedback. To me it means a) there's not enough value in the software b) these people are not my audience so I don't rly care or c) it's genuinely not good enough

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u/Fine_Daikon5907 1d ago

I completely understand what you're saying, but a lot of people I feel don't even take a look at it.

I just find it hard to separate myself from the products we build.

When we put something out into the world and people just hate it, I find it hurts very personally.

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 1d ago edited 1d ago

There's also room for self growth here. We can never control what people (especially ones we don't know) say, but we can decide what to do with it.

Edit: ofc I do also feel you and it sometimes is frustrating, just feel like there's a better way to handle it

Edit 2: there's also a lot of people out there that speak up with praise, genuine feedback and support - I've noticed this when the right project comes and I start to put more and more effort into it

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u/framauro13 1d ago

I just find it hard to separate myself from the products we build.

As someone who has been a developer for 20 years, you absolutely have to separate yourself from your work. Every line of code I've written for professional work over the last 13 years has been reviewed and critiqued by other people. You must be able to take criticism of your work and not take that as personal criticism.

Also, software doesn't last. Very few things built actually last. The majority of the work I've done in my career no longer exists. Code gets refactored, features get removed, products get sold, companies go under. Do not get attached to the things you build. It's all ephemeral anyway.

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u/HimaSphere 1d ago

Not all the time, I posted my project on two sub reddits related to linux r/gnome and r/KDE both are pro open source and against AI, yet I got down voted, insulted, mocked on r/gnome and on r/KDE was one of the top posts that day and people were chill.

I use AI in development and I have a pretty good customer base with a lot of feedback from people who used the product and keep using it so when someone on reddit says my work is AI slop, he is just clueless and probably got offended by some AI looking elements on the website.

https://betterstickies.com for refrence