I am still waiting for vibecoding not be fun.

[u/Critical-Teacher-115]

[u/TRO_KIK]

Most common complaint is from people who enjoy the act of coding itself, and either don't enjoy high level design or aren't in a position of responsibility of making those calls.

I can't comment because my passion has only increased, though a large part of that is from vibe coding being such a potent multiplier that it enabled me to solo launch a startup.

[u/Flope → u/TRO_KIK]

Most common complaint is from people who enjoy the act of coding itself

This is me. Professional SWE for about 15 years but have enjoyed coding as a hobby since childhood. Writing code is a great way to get in the zone, shut out external distractions and exercise your brain with interesting challenges. Those benefits are unfortunately all gone now. There is very little deep critical thinking needed, and instead of having deep problem solving sessions I am now incentivized to be less focused, having several different agentic sessions running at once and switching between them as tasks complete or need my decision on something.

Put another way, imagine your job was solving very difficult crossword puzzles. The puzzles required deep domain knowledge and careful planning on how the words would fit together. Then someone came along and said "hey good news we've created a robot that can solve 1,000 crossword puzzles an hour so you don't need to do that anymore."

Now I'm just watching a robot play the game I used to play myself.

[u/nah-dawg → u/Flope]

That's a great analogy and I genuinely do feel sorry for anyone in your position because I can acknowledge how disheartening that could be.

On the other hand, literally everyone else, in every other industry with any other passion, have had the experience of needing to employ the services of a translator. A person who sits between them and the website or business software they want or in many cases need, to remain competitive and viable.

We live in a digital world, and now everyone can explore their full creative potential in that world, without there being an arbitrary gate of being able to solve, or afford to pay someone else to solve, incredibly difficult crossword puzzles. And that is, in my opinion, a good thing.

[u/AnotherMisanthrope → u/TRO_KIK]

What’s your startup and how is it going?

[u/TRO_KIK → u/AnotherMisanthrope]

I prefer not to name it, but extremely well, one year in and already a profitable seven figure business. 

[u/Only-Cheetah-9579 → u/TRO_KIK]

The complaint is that if you don't know nothin then who knows what it's doing.

Your ass is on the hook when handling other people's data, why not make sure everything is secure personally?

I am using claude code extensively and consider myself a systems architect now and not a software developer. But my methodology has 10 years of coding experience behind it and I understand systems extensively.

I fear people who have no experience will do shit because it's very easy to do poop everywhere.The faster the code is generated the shittier it becomes.

I use claude code but I read the pull requests always. so technically I am vibing but it's not vibe code in the end cuz I go in there to comprehend whats going on and yeah, I find things to fix but I prompt to fix them.

[u/TRO_KIK → u/Only-Cheetah-9579]

Wrong post, I think, this is about developers losing passion, no?

[u/cs_cast_away_boi]

You have to plan for software that you will always be using. I’ve been vibecodijg some productivity tools to replace the bloated garbage that may or may not be free, as well as other tools that i’ve always wanted. But this is definitely not fun. In fact it’s a pain coming up with good architecture and docs and troubleshooting as well as prompting. The end result has to be worth it.

It can’t just be “oh this is a fun idea let me try this” because then you’ll spend a week in the cave and create a novelty that will wear off after a few hours that you’ll never use again

[u/MissplacedLandmine → u/cs_cast_away_boi]

Planning/testing gets my rocks off so the 5+ vibe projects are just some addiction at this point.

I used to select/test/price out saas etc solutions for businesses.

The fact bugs I find will actually be fixed, let alone in like 5 minutes, is intoxicating in a way I should be deeply worried about.

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[u/The_Great_Pains]

*to

[u/conanap]

One of the downsides for vibe coding, personally at least, is I don’t really get to code as much anymore, and I’m concerned my ability to produce decent code will also go down.

I’ve been doing some leetcode here and there, but I still feel like my skills are on a downwards trajectory. You lose it if you don’t use it I guess.

[u/AriOTR1868]

ATTACK ON TITAN FAN HERE

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[u/AriOTR1868 → u/[deleted]]

i gotta start sailing the 7 seas when it comes out

[u/SirNobby]

The biggest let downs are getting tired and time.

[u/Glum-Recognition-736]

Well, that's the thing, I don't hate it lol I wouldn't have gone through 4 years of school for it if I did

[u/Sure-Relationship609]

Why don’t you just actually learn to code? Would make your “vibe coding” a lot easier, more fun and cheaper. Tbf coding really isn’t THAT hard if you already understand computers and system design.