u/Overall-Classroom227

Seeing lots of posts like “built this whole app in 1 week with AI” lately, so I wanted to share something that happened to me.

I use Claude Code almost daily in my work. For backend stuff, CRUD, repetitive logic, debugging, boilerplate, etc., it genuinely saves an insane amount of time.

A few days ago, I thought:
“Why not try Flutter for fun?”

I literally never wrote Flutter before.

I let AI generate most of the app. And honestly, at first, I felt amazing about it.

The app worked.
UI looked clean.
Everything felt “professional”.

Then I sent the code to one of my friends who’s an experienced Flutter developer.

The first thing he said was:
“bro this folder structure is terrible.”

Then he started explaining all the problems:
bad architecture choices, performance issues, unnecessary rebuilds, weird state management decisions, patterns that apparently no experienced Flutter dev would use in real production apps.

And the crazy part is:
I genuinely could not see those problems myself.

To me, the app looked completely fine.

That kinda changed how I think about vibe coding.

Now I’m wondering:
Are people actually building production-ready apps with AI in technologies they barely know?

Or are we just getting really good at generating apps that LOOK complete to beginners/intermediate developers?

I’m not anti-AI at all. I use it every day, and it absolutely makes me faster.

But now I feel AI is more like a multiplier for existing knowledge, not a replacement for it.

i saw someone casually post a “small side project” yesterday and it had auth, payments, ai features, polished UI, mobile responsiveness, analytics, onboarding emails and a waitlist system 😭

like 2 years ago that was basically a startup.

the craziest part is that people are starting to benchmark themselves against this now. you build something genuinely decent and then open twitter/reddit and some guy says “just hacked this together in 6 hours” followed by the most overengineered app you’ve ever seen.

vibe coding really changed the definition of what “small project” means. i guess people have too much money on them to spend on claude tokens.

Cleaning out my 2025 subscriptions ahead of 2026 planning. Curious what other solo and 2-person shops are actually running for marketing right now.

Not looking for the latest shiny thing. Want to hear what earned its spot on the monthly bill and what got cut. Specifics preferred.

Edit: Adopted 3 of your picks: Signals for launches (already ran one, worked as promised), Parse free tier for monitoring, Umami over PostHog. Saving around $80/month and getting better visibility. Cheers.

Sorry for the language I'm going to use, but we're really entering a generation of idiotic developers...

I'm only talking about 100% "vibe coders," meaning those who don't understand a single line of code and just talk to people like Lovable! I was talking to a "vibe coder" this week and I taught him the words "front end" and "back end"...

Even though he's been building projects, landing pages, etc., for eight months!

My developer friends, I'm telling you! It's going to be tough for us in the coming years, haha.

I work for a tech company, and I'm in charge of recruitment!

And I'm wondering: is this necessary for you? Is it something that is required now to be a good developer?

Hello everyone, vibecoder here. I’ve been building a project for a couple of months now, it’s good, it works, it’s secure, well tested. Thing is, I don’t know how to write a single line of code. And to be completely honest I don’t want to learn coding in general is not fun to me I’ve tried it in the past I don’t like it.

But I already built something, with full on AI, and one day when someone asks me “this line does what?” I’ll be clueless. Don’t get me wrong I understand almost everything about the project architectural wise but code wise? Nothing. So yeah I feel like a fraud, I feel embarrassed to release the project to public eyes but idk I did build it, even if the code was AI the project was my idea, my decisions that shaped it into what it was AI assisted or not.

Anyone else feel like this?

I coded a tool on Vibe, and in one month I managed to get 60 users because I have a small community on X.

And one morning I wake up and see that my tool is no longer available, so I spend a whole day searching for it because I'm not a developer...

As a result, I called a developer friend to take a look. I'd been hacked and all the user data had been stolen... so you can imagine I felt like crying.

Be careful with vibe coding, you're not equipped to protect your clients, and I feel terrible for having betrayed people who trusted me with my platform...

the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in.( that’s actually the only good part)

but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said “what is this.”

6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the AI just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.

tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.

the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.

is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?