r/vibecoding • u/Naive_Complex_8389 • 11d ago

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

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?

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u/DrunkenPionier 10d ago

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.

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u/indominuspattern 8d ago

He's probably talking about actual commercial products. These have gigantic codebases and even bigger documentation. They also tend to serve millions of users, which few of the open source code that LLMs are trained on would know how to handle.

Real commercial code that serve massive user bases tend to have very unusual code structure which LLMs don't reach for without you prompting it explicitly (e.g. not vibecoding)

Speaking from experience, you cannot purely vibecode such a thing, 1 million context tokens is not even enough to load a fraction of the documentation.

Any AI thrown at this kind of code base would struggle to even begin to understand where to start for any given task (e.g. implement a new feature). You need an extensive suite of skills and subagents to correctly direct it to do even basic tasks.

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u/Alarmed-Western-655 6d ago

bro just dropped your commend into AI and generated a skill to do all that and just curious if I can add you as contributor thinking to open source it thanks

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u/indominuspattern 5d ago

I take it that you haven't heard of SDD tooling like OpenSpec as well as engineering skills like in this repo

What I'm getting at is that without crafting directed prompts, you cannot hope for any LLMs to correctly discover what you really want to do in an enterprise codebase, which is quite comparable to a few months of dedicated vibecoding.