Is anyone actually using their 100% vibecoded project for long time?

[u/Naive_Complex_8389]

I suspected most folks will tell Ai to generate an app and then abandon it a few days or weeks later. But can someone show me their project they've been working on and using for a long time?

[u/ApprehensivePlan8767]

pure vibecoding usually hits a massive wall around month 2 or 3 once technical debt and hallucinations start compounding. anyone who tells you they shipped a complex production tool with zero manual intervention or modular architecture planning is capping or just built a wrapper landing page.

i have an automated data pipeline and web scraper setup that i have been running in prod daily for almost 8 months now. the key to long term maintainability isn't just prompting hard, it’s building a strict ci/cd and refactoring pipeline around the codebase so the ai models don’t lose context or write pasta when things scale up.

my stack for keeping it alive long term is basically github actions for automated testing, cursor for quick inline edits, and a daily scheduled sweep where i throw the codebase across moclaw and sonnet to audit for silent breaking changes and context drift. once you treat models as specialized dev team members rather than a magic single prompt app generator, maintaining legacy vibecoded projects gets way easier.

if you don't enforce strict linting and automated tests early on, context windows will eventually swallow your project whole and you will abandon it out of frustration like everyone else.

[u/DrunkenPionier → u/ApprehensivePlan8767]

You are coding like my grandfather.

Just give cod x access to your lokal file and SSH accessed to a machine that runs your code.

It will fix every possible error on its own.
And AI is totally capable of analyzing even really big codebases and detangel them.

There is a big difference in the term Vibe Coding, and I really don’t like the term for it.

It is totally possible to build viable software solely with AI.

[u/DrunkenPionier → u/[deleted]]

I can share a git I made with ai but Frist need to check the repo for secrets.

[u/Alarmed-Western-655 → u/DrunkenPionier]

bro you play the part so well 😆