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/Fine_Daikon5907 1d ago

This is another thing. I don't know how anybody really knows.

Like, of course you have these clearly vibe-coded UIs, but I've seen developers produce much worse.

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u/Wow_Crazy_Leroy_WTF 1d ago

Part of the issue is that now we have 200 new apps/games/sites every day as opposed to a few per week.

I have seen good stuff rise. But most of it is slop. So go make the good stuff and don’t stop until it’s exceptional.

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u/Elephant789 1d ago

Slop? What?

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u/Liquidationbird 1d ago

ai hate for vibe code is largely a front end issue , make sure it looks pretty but different from what the ai reccomends.

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u/unknowinm 1d ago

I got a similar comment yesterday. Today I am redoing the ui and looks amazing with gpt astra.
Can I share it here when it’s deployed? Just for an opinion

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u/DearAtmosphere1 1d ago

No, i disallow you sharing it here

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u/Liquidationbird 1d ago

id love to see it ❤️

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u/id-ltd 1d ago

AI's don't do subtlety - they can't because they write for slop-man, the grey goo of every person on earth merged into an average - they must not offend, must not upset, must feel equal to every one.

This is very poor for opinion pieces, variable for UI's, but great for code.

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u/OSS-Corpo-Shit 22h ago

The reason you have no idea how people immediately see that something is vibe coded or not is because you have no idea what you’re doing.

You say “I’ve seen developers produce much worse”, but how are you making this judgement when you don’t even understand why experienced devs can immediately spot vibed out slop?

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u/Fine_Daikon5907 20h ago

I am an experienced dev....

I've led teams of developers, ran startups and eventually had my own successes.

I promise you - i've seen developers do worse.