Comment by onlyrealcuzzo

I'm trying to test if vibe coding can actually scale... And man is it painful.

AI is great at creating slop that almost works.

But, my god, it is terrible at following clear as day instructions on how to cleanup slop.

It wrote 150k lines of code that almost works in 2 months. It's taken 1 month to delete about 2000 lines of broken architecture and fix it, and it still hasn't gotten it done, despite nonstop repeated efforts to do something not that hard.

I definitely could've fixed it less time then I've spent prompting at this point (but no way I'd have gotten the other 150k lines). But doing it myself is not the point. It's to see if it can actually scale.

The answer is yes... But my god is it agonizing.

The creating garbage part that almost works is fun.

The inevitable cleanup is not.

And unfortunately I don't see this aspect materially improving in the short term.

If you want it to code you something about 5-10k lines of code that's already been done 1000 times before or only slightly different, it's great.

Most people want more than that.