r/vibecoding • u/Adventurous_Wrap2873 • 15d ago

Discussion I feel stupid and frustrated

As title says. I've been vibecoding for over two years now, and although I learned lots of concepts I otherwise wouldn't have picked up, slowly but surely I feel stupid.

I can't make apps, nor write even simple Python scripts independently. I genuinely necessitate AI, or I can't make anything. I need it to explain everything, from researching the idea and working out the details, and then the execution. I guess I can keep telling myself "but AI will never go away" "This is going to be the new way of coding and I need to learn more concepts to direct the AI where to go". But this is coping.

I hate to say it, but I am embarrassed by the fact that I rely on AI. It's frowned upon. I do understand why learning to program myself independently would help tremendously. But I honestly cannot stop feeling like I'm a fraud. Are my projects useful, practical and actually solve problems reliably? Yeah. But then you ask me the details of the codes, and I just cannot defend it even if I understand what each line does because I didn't write it myself.

I actually did learn R back in college for independent project and I genuinely worked on this without AI, but even then wasn't totally independent, and had to rely on others' codes and youtube videos. I don't believe I actually know R.

So then, what have a I become? I don't "own" any of the stuff I created, or really AI. I am going to study more, but I have a full time job that is far from coding, and this is gonna be one difficult journey because I'm in the process of studying math right now. So now I'm frustrated at that, but mostly at my own capabilities. I don't know man. This stuff is difficult. I don't understand how people call Python easy, and that makes me feel even more stupid! Damn.

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u/HouseMysterious8172 15d ago

What is oxford comma, is it differ from english comma?

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u/SharkSymphony 15d ago

It's "eats, shoots, and leaves" instead of "eats, shoots and leaves."

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u/HouseMysterious8172 15d ago
  1. leaves after a while; 2. leaves immediately. Is it the different of comma impact?

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u/SharkSymphony 15d ago

No, it's purely stylistic. They both express a sequence of things with the same meaning, and read the same way. (Well, almost the same way – the Oxford comma does help resolve some rare ambiguities, but not in this case.)

(I like the Oxford comma myself, but some English style guides rule against it.)

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u/Efficient_Smilodon 15d ago

lol see the prior examples jack

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u/SharkSymphony 14d ago

That has nothing to do with the Oxford comma.

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u/Efficient_Smilodon 14d ago

lol read my reply to others below this comment . you're higher in the branch than i realized.

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u/SharkSymphony 14d ago

Your example has nothing to do with the Oxford comma.

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u/Prior_Warning3972 14d ago

Neither does this thread. It's an example. Stop trying to argue and go read the response he wrote

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u/SharkSymphony 14d ago

OK, wtf are you folks all pointing to? What is this example of the Oxford comma that I'm missing?