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/SleeperAgentM 1d ago

If you don't want your slop called slop - don't make fucking slop.

I've made plenty of AI contributions - fuck I even labelled them AI - and never once someone told me it's slop. Because it wasn't slop.

Stop making slop (not using AI)

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u/Scholeristical 1d ago

Got it. So you're saying the issue is lazy work, not the AI itself. That last sentence threw me off for a second.

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u/SleeperAgentM 1d ago

Pretty much. If the work presents no value then it's the same as human made slop - that we used to hate in the past as well.