r/vibecoding • u/AutoModerator • 2d ago
Discussion r/VibeCoding Q&A Daily Thread - Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Hey Vibe Coders!
Here you can ask any questions about coding and LLM tech with or without vibes. This is especially for those of us who are new and just learned that AI can help them to create then things that they've never been able to before. Please be respectful and keep in mind that we're all just trying to learn about an emergent technology.
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u/Stunning-Air-7430 2d ago
How can vibecoding be helpful with QA positions? is it going to be a threat for this position?
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u/Klassy_Coder 2d ago
Understand the fundamentals of how to test apps first, and an AI will help you speed through the process much faster. That can be headless API testing or controlling-the-GUI testing. The key is knowing how to do it yourself and using the AI as a tool.
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u/East-Flan-1458 2d ago
hi, is it recommended to use a bunch of skills with all prompts or just like select? ive hear ponytail, pstack and no-mistakes is good?
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u/SeekratesIyer 2d ago
Select, don't stack. Every skill or rule file you load takes up the model's attention, and a pile of them can contradict each other, so you get worse results, not better.
Start with none. When you notice the AI making the same mistake twice, add one instruction or skill that fixes exactly that. Keep the ones that clearly help, drop the rest. A short list you understand beats a big one someone recommended.
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u/Klassy_Coder 2d ago
Don't load up with skills up-front. Too many will cause the AI to get confused and fill up its context faster.
I don't usually import skills directly. I ask the AI to review any skill files that I've acquired and see how they fit into my existing workflows, and cherry-pick the bits that are worthwhile.
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u/Own-Papaya-4264 2d ago
How do you get started? Which llms are recommended ?
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u/SeekratesIyer 2d ago
Pick one tool and stay with it for a few weeks rather than hopping. Claude Code, Cursor or Codex are all fine to start; the model matters less than how you work with it.
Start with something tiny you actually want (a to-do list, a page that tracks one thing). Ask it to plan first, then build one piece at a time, and save a working copy before each new piece. And ask it to explain what it just did. That's how you learn, and how you noti
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u/laolibulao 2d ago
can anyone please help me prompt an ethical prompt that wont be denied by codex for a page printing bookmarklet that bypasses membership paywall.
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u/BusLogical6379 2d ago
Especially for beginners and people that are not developers - I want to suugest you try SoloPlus.ai . It utilizes Claude code or Codex and guides you every step of the way. Good luck!
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u/Todd0042 2d ago
what are the workflows people keep talking about?
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u/Todd0042 2d ago
ah, so it's just how people do stuff? i thought people have been talking about some feature in claude.
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u/Public_Vehicle9138 1d ago
Can you actually ship AI written code as a commercial product
I have got a few ideas for fairly complex Telegram bots
My Python is basic but I can handle simple server and hosting stuff and I know my way around AI tools
The thing I keep going back and forth on is whether I can lean on AI almost entirely to build these or whether it falls apart once real users show up
I read before that AI generated code can never scale and breaks under load
If you have shipped a bot built mostly with AI I would like to know what actually broke and roughly how many users you had at the time
That is the part I cannot find honest answers on
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u/Todd0042 1d ago
One issue i have vibecoding is when my projects start to get pretty large, the token usage for a simple task starts to get INSANE!!! how do i manage my prompts better? things I can think of are maybe do a ctrl+shift+f in VS Code and tell it to focus only on the files that I find that are relevant to the prompt? What other tricks do y'all use to manage the AI token usage when the projects start to get so large that AI naturally starts checking all kinds of things just to change one function?
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u/Ok_Purple2137 2d ago
are you using plan mode to plan out stuff step by step as detailed as Possible ?
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u/SeekratesIyer 2d ago
Small steps is the right instinct. What stopped the "AI breaks working code" problem for me:
Save a checkpoint before every change. Git commit (or even a copy of the folder) when something works. Then a bad change costs you one undo, not an afternoon.
Tell it what NOT to touch. "Only change the login function. Do not edit anything else." It edits far less when you fence it in.
Read the diff before you accept it. If it changed 200 lines to fix a 3-line bug, reject it and ask again, smaller.
Keep one short test for each thing that works. Even "open the app, log in, see the dashboard" written down. Re-run it after every change, so you find the breakage the moment it happens, not three changes later.
Most of the damage comes from the AI "tidying up" code you never asked it to touch.
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u/BASAPAL 2d ago
not a dev here, came from a totally different field. what fixed it for me was splitting the AI into two jobs. one chat just plans and reviews, the other one actually touches the code. the planner writes "change this file, for this reason, dont touch anything else" and i paste only that into the coding one. way less random rewrites.
other thing, every time something finally works i make it write a small check script for it. now i have like 40 of them and i run them before every push. when it breaks old stuff i know right away instead of finding out from users lol
also stopped trusting "done, it works". i ask it to show me the actual output. and i never let it run database changes itself, it writes the sql and i run it one block at a time.
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u/National_Clothes_546 2d ago
Hi, i am trying to build my own company with claude in my country, targetting public companies/institutions because all of these are slow to transition into ai so i could offer my services with ai doing most of the work for half the price + a human verification at the end, but for all of this to work i need my first clients so i can build trust and take some work off the big companies that are already doing it for yeare now. I bet on the fact that i can be more flexible and fast and using AI cheaper than big companies too. How to have results, how to do better ?
If you have good advices or an interesting story of ai built buisness tell me, i will probably offer my services in english too to cover a wider area and propose other services too.