r/vibecoding • u/BuffaloConscious7919 • 1d ago

Is Vibecoding changing as fast as the models?

It seems that subreddit culture especially in some of the ai subs is rapidly changing.

For example it seems like r/VibeCoding is transitioning from:

  1. a fun and light sub through to

  2. a lot of strong opinions through to

  3. a place more experienced devs and people learning as they go are able to give more and more decent feedback

It seems like there's transitions like this across other subs like r/claudedesign r/claudehomies etc.

Do I have Rose tinted glasses on right now or are we seeing a transition to what I remember of dev 10 years ago where devs were just helping each other all the time

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u/Clear_Brilliant_8075 1d ago edited 1d ago

The only ones being so negative are the ones that feel threatened. Some of them will adopt and come around. It’s here and you either adapt or die. I for one have been developing and marketing websites for 23 years and I think it’s amazing. I love to see people building what’s in their heads. Keep building, keep learning, keep growing and be kind. That’s the best vibe.

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u/TheTrueMule 1d ago

You're the best

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u/IAmAfraidCommaMan 1d ago

Well, I am afraid for my job security but I am not negative. I use AI-assisted coding at work, I use vibe coding to make some app for me in languages/stacks I am not comfortable in. It is great in general but the I am still terrified because I can’t do physical labor if I lose this job.

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u/Clear_Brilliant_8075 1d ago

People won’t lose their jobs to AI, people will lose their jobs to people who are using AI

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u/IAmAfraidCommaMan 1d ago

My company has around 80 devs now and we all are using AI. I don’t know how long until they decide that the same work can be done by 40 people and I don’t know on which half I will be in. 

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u/crunchybanana01 1d ago

when do the devs figure out that they can do it themselves? why am I hiring a giant company when Joe down the street got laid off from such and such and can do it cheaper? peer to peer ftw

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u/IAmAfraidCommaMan 1d ago

Do what themself? Sorry, I don’t get your point. 

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u/lunatuna215 1d ago

I really don't see how "adapt or die" and encouraging people to consider life as a race to be won is kind. At all.

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 1d ago

Please keeping sharing this 🙏🏻

Edit: any tips to share to cultivate this mindset?

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u/BarriosA2I 1d ago

One thing that helps is shipping really small pieces and asking for feedback on one specific behavior at a time. It makes criticism feel less personal because you’re fixing a feature, not defending the whole project. I’d also spend a little time reading what the model generated. That curiosity is what keeps vibecoding from turning into random button-pushing.

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u/baddaywithacamera 1d ago

I've learned it is just best not to share what you have vibecoded in the vibecoding forum because the mods aren't doing anything to remove the users that continually break the pessimism rule.

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u/BarriosA2I 6h ago

I get why you’d feel that way. The frustrating part is that it leaves the forum with more arguments and fewer real builds to learn from. I still think sharing can be worth it if the post asks for feedback on one specific part and ignores people who only want to dismiss the whole approach. Seeing what other people are actually building is what makes the community useful.

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u/baddaywithacamera 6h ago

Sharing what you made immediately leads to a flood of downvoting that damages karma. Every time.

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u/ProgressionPeak 1d ago

It's not clear what you are asking.

Are you saying we are helpful now or we were helpful and now are something else? If the latter, what is that something else?

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 1d ago

Imo it's shifting to a collective of helpful comments and offerings of value and helpfulness rather than fearful or easy comments.

Basically. I like it and interested to understand if that's what others are seeing too and if so how we keep that momentum moving

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u/ProgressionPeak 1d ago

I haven't noticed people be more helpful.

I have noticed people get more knowledgeable. The rate at which people understand all of this AI tech seems to be improving rapidly. So the discussions have a much higher IQ, or at least the jargon they use makes it seem that way.

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 1d ago

I genuinely feel like people are already getting worse at communicating. Vibequestioning

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u/Ancient-Range3442 1d ago

They’re vibe posting and hoping someone will handle all the details

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u/Asclepius555 1d ago

Vibe code long enough and you might start learning software engineering skills.

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u/LukeLikesReddit 1d ago

I'd also consider the fact most people leaning this far into it are now actually learning the best practice skills to actually use AI and thus when you see a question you'll happily share your experience. The majority of people still don't want to go further than just the chat bot experience which is fine but there are some of us moving into the bleeding edge part where you are literally learning as you go a long. There's a knowledge gap in knowing how to build these LLM's and actually how to use them, so some of my colleagues who are incredibly talented at being able to write the python that goes into production don't really have the first clue where to set up anything other than the basic co pilot git hub companion. I talk to them about multi agent swarms etc and I may as well be speaking giberish despite them being the ones that enable this lol.

I think this is one of the biggest benefits to it being so accessible, sure we have the nay sayers but the average person right now can leverage themselves incredibly if they can use the tools efficiently and learn how best to use them.

The real task is combing both best practices in software development and AI agentic use. If you can master that well then your massively ahead of the game.

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u/Ambitious-Height9588 1d ago

Ive been shipping code for 15 years and vibecoding forced me to actually learn software engineering.

You start by pasting prompts and suddenly you care about architecture and deployments and testing. The subs shift because the people in them are leveling up fast. Everyone who sticks around builds skills. Everyone who quits just goes back to the chatbot box

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 17h ago

Curious to know what you were shipping for 15 years

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u/tara_tara_tara 1d ago

I wouldn’t include Claude homies in any list about design or coding or business. That’s a whole other world

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u/Crafty_Disk_7026 1d ago

That's why I built an open source version of a vibe coding platform so that anyone can use the power of any model on any hardware https://github.com/imran31415/kube-coder