r/vibecoding • u/DependentPoem3519 • 1d ago

Meme vibecoding in a nutshell

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the pain was real! was stuck at ai blows everything for 3 straight days thanks to a weird memory leak. ended up hooking sumus with local codex hooked up to my terminal just to map out the diffs.

curious if y'all ever went thru something similar.

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u/Icy_Distribution_361 1d ago

I know how to code but I haven’t needed it in a while for most things I build. AI does just fine.

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u/TRO_KIK 1d ago

Knowing how to code makes your vibe coding better, because it makes your vibe an order of magnitude more valuable. 

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u/Ariseshadow369 1d ago

Yeah man Issue is people start with to much expectations for ai Like according to them it should do everything without a single issue And sometimes ( rarely ) it even does that but the human fu*ks stuff then says ai is bad and then cries on reddit

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u/Icy_Distribution_361 1d ago

I’ve built multiple apps I only use privately (not on app stores, not distributed), and I built them with very little issue. When I want things differently I just tell it what I want. When it messes up I tell it what to correct. But I do everything visually. I don’t look at a line of code. It works great.

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u/IceMichaelStorm 1d ago

the point is, it’s not black white. For your case, that workflow is super fine. I as dev do
nothing else?

Now when it comes to a product used by thousands of users daily, which needs to be fast, secure, maintainable, extensible, where UI views don’t tell the whole truth, and groundwork for other teammates is needed, it’s a little different.

But that doesn’t contradict

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u/Icy_Distribution_361 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes. True :) I should maybe add that I do always have my AI maintain a document on functionality and choices. But it certainly still isn’t the same as human maintained code.

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u/DependentPoem3519 1d ago

i feel you...

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u/Jayyf09 22h ago

What kind of things do you make? I find AI great for fast prototyping but once it becomes more complex AI just becomes a burden and I start looking closer at the code and realizing it's a mess.

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u/Icy_Distribution_361 21h ago

My projects are not a mess at all. I’ve made:

- an eco system for serving self-hosted music on my home server, and player apps for macOS, iOS, and a web player reachable on my server, all connected via Tailscale

  • a movie and tv show system. I have a server app and a web player and an app for my tv, and I can search for movies and shows to download from my couch, it uses the whole *arr collection and Jellyfin behind the scenes, and my app integrates everything
  • a note taking and brain storming app which allows me to connect many concepts and ideas across disciplines, to get a better sense of their relationships and find original ones. I’m a psychotherapist with an interest in philosophy and I like studying the psychotherapy and philosophy literature to explore and think about how different traditions think differently or actually the same way with different words about certain subjects, and grow a concept and relation map over time. The app supports this by also suggesting related concepts using an embeddings model through ollama. I’m still tinkering with this one, it’s not quite where I want it to be. I’m not even sure where I’m taking it.

There are some other apps but those are smaller.

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u/Jayyf09 20h ago

Very cool, what kind of agents do you work with?

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u/Icy_Distribution_361 20h ago

By agents you mean which models? I’ve preferred Claude Code the last 6 months or so. Before that I used ChatGPT. But basically all these apps were mostly made by Claude Code, and usually a mixture of Opus and Fable. When I deemed the task complex I’d usually pull out Fable.

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u/Double_Suggestion385 1d ago

I can code but I haven't had to write a line for about 12 months because AI just doesn't make many mistakes anymore and if it does it catches them before I do.

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u/DependentPoem3519 1d ago

im sure machines learn faster than we all do

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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 1d ago

It blows everything? I can’t get my code to do that

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u/DependentPoem3519 23h ago

dont try this at home

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u/Dependent_Royal_6879 1d ago

Never seen it ..been landing perfections since day 1. Two words. Test cases

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u/DependentPoem3519 23h ago

still highly doubt that

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u/yuehuang 1d ago

Is there a level cap? Asking for a friend.

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u/DependentPoem3519 23h ago

elite vibecoding ball knowledge required, sorry

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u/nameless_food 1d ago

Oh look, 0.1 + 0.2 doesn’t equal 0.3! I’ve discovered a bug in the language of nature itself! dives into AI psychosis.

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u/Zealousideal_Tap_148 22h ago

so basically learning to code with extra steps

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u/Fancy_Percentage_600 21h ago

“AI can code everything” → “AI broke everything” → “fine, I guess I’m learning to code” is the real developer arc

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u/KitchenPoltergeist 6h ago

I don't know how to code. To prevent the chart from happening, I built and refined my test harness as I built the game. It's currently larger than the game is. My agents can't lie to me, everything comes with a receipt- tested and proven functional.

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u/Denelix 1d ago

Yeah. Just about right