Comment by dizlexic
18 hours ago
every vibe coded thing I've built is trash, but it's amazingly fun to do.
I've tried to explain it to other devs that it's like dumping out a 10000 piece jigsaw puzzle and trying to put it together again.
it's just fun.
There was a time when everyone hand-coded HTML. Then came Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage which promised a WYSIWYG experience. No one would ever need to "learn HTML and CSS" because the tool could write it for them. Those tools could crank out a website in minutes.
When those tools created some awful, complex and slow output, only the people who knew HTML could understand why it wasn't working and fix things.
Vibe coding is in a similar place. It demos really well. It can be powerful and allows for quick iteration on ideas. It works, most of the time. Vibe coding can produce some really terrible code that is not well architected and difficult to maintain. It can introduce basic logic errors that are not easily corrected through multiple prompts back to the system.
I don't know if they will ever be capable of creating production quality systems on par with what senior engineers produce or if they will only get incrementally better and remain best for prototypes and testing ideas.
> it’s just fun
For some definitions of fun… :)