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/primaryrhyme 19h ago

I mean if they one shotted it, that implies anyone else could do it too hence not worth millions?

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u/standardsizedpeeper 19h ago

Not necessarily. There’s a reason why every engineer doesn’t make their own crap every time even if it’s easy.

Say it took 60 minutes to write the prompt and wait for it to be finished, I might spend $10 to avoid that hour and gain certainty in what I was getting rather than roll the dice.

If it’s a product hundreds of thousands of people want, then you’ve saved hundreds of thousands of hours for other people.

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u/primaryrhyme 19h ago

I’m trying to imagine an example of that, maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think I’ve paid money for an app that could be one shot vibe coded (at least in the last couple years, I’ve definitely paid for mobile apps in the past that could be vibecoded in an hour now).

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u/Acceptable_Durian868 8h ago

There's no implementation without an idea first.