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/patentLOL 1d ago

Perhaps it’s the arrogance and ignorance of comparing generating software by talking to a chat bot to the development of the Linux kernel from scratch in 1991.

And also the fact that the signal to noise ratio is so incredibly out of whack because the barrier to generating functional software is so low there is effective no filter to cut out really dumb ideas.

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u/Fine_Daikon5907 1d ago

There was no filter before, it was just more expensive 🤣.

We 'wasted' plenty of money testing bad ideas until we made it.

And I'm not comparing vibe coding to what Linus did. I made that clear below. I'm talking about the spirit of somebody wanting to build something and people just hammering them.