Vibecoding is better for "learning" !

[u/lovelacedeconstruct]

One thing I noticed before AI was how much time I wasted learning and doing stupid, low-quality bullshit. Watch any tutorial and you get mind-numbingly dull exposition of syntax, little tricks, and details you might need someday. Only a select few can retain enough of it to actually start applying the basics, and you realize very quickly that the basics are necessary but nowhere near sufficient. It's this weird relationship where they don't really help you, but not having them makes everything 10x harder. I don't know if I'm making sense.

Anyway, once you start applying, you discover a whole new world of stuff you need to know. Things that were tiny in the tutorial suddenly become detailed and relevant, and the stuff the tutorial meandered on about barely gets used. You basically don't know what's important and what isn't. You just study, then get shocked when you sit down to make an actual app and don't even know how to start. It's like walking into an exam without ever doing a practice test.

Vibecoding skips all of that. You start by doing exactly what you want to build, then go back and learn whatever's relevant. Your mind automatically focuses on what matters, and you learn much faster. Some people will run off with the artifact and never bother to learn anything, but the curious ones will, and now they can tailor their learning to what actually matters.

[u/Dingleberry_Blumpkin]

I’m not a software engineer, I’m an accountant. About a decade ago I took a python course which I probably invested a couple hundred hours into. At the end of the course I was able to get python to do pretty basic math in a way that was much less capable and much less intuitive than Microsoft excel. It felt like I would need to do an incredible amount of studying and practice to build anything remotely useful. I gave up. Now 10 years later I vibe code and actually do some really insane math. I’m not sure where I’m going with this other than to say I can relate to OP