u/Overall-Classroom227

Omg you still have to use your brain and wear a million hats from PM, product designer, content designer. qa tester, web designer (coz you gotta get that website up with the right marketing message that explains your app), graphic designer (coz you gotta get some nice pics ready for the App Store) etc. etc.

I wouldnt dare add developer to the list because omg, I have sooo much respect and now understand why they make the big bucks. Who can do a job for something that doesn’t work or has the ability to wrong at any point in the chain, just chasing for that one time stuff works or works in cohesion. Omg you really have to be built for that coz it sure ain’t easy. I mean I enjoy solving puzzles lol but that’s a whole other level and I was just getting frustrated from writing prompts lol so I can’t imagine.

What was hilarious was that even the Ai got stuck and packed me off to discord for an answer from a human. At that point I was like every tech CEO needs to vibe code an app so they can get it. That thing literally has 0 memory too.

Anyway was a fantastic, extremely frustrating at times but rewarding experience and fingers crossed (at build 16) I’m very close to launch.

Oh and another thing, don’t be a perfectionist and try and do this ish coz that’s a whole other problem. I’m in UX so just couldn’t put out slop so I’m happy with what I’ve got and if someone calls it simple that’ll be the most praise I could get coz I literally don’t even want you to know the apps there (other than opening it) coz I made every effort to get outta your way.

If I sound a little delirious it’s coz I been at it 6 weeks straight literally night and day (did I say it’s also kinda addictive, lol) but yeah just wanted to say hi, share a little of my experience and tell folks to keep on keeping on.

Not looking for "AI hallucinated code" , everyone's has faced that. More curious about the process mistakes. Like trusting the AI's file structure too early, not reading generated code before shipping it, skipping version control because "it's just a prototype," or picking the wrong tool for the job and finding out three hours in.

What's the thing you now do differently because you got burned once?

I keep seeing posts on here from people saying they completely lost everything they built after an AI went off the rails. (I know some are bots, but still).

Seriously, do you guys not know how to use local Git?

Just initialize a repo. Commit your stable code before you start building out a new feature. When the AI inevitably breaks something or turns your codebase into spaghetti, just revert back to your last working state and learn from it.

It takes two seconds and saves hours of loss work.

Edit:

For those who actually don't know the commands, it’s just three lines in your terminal once your code is working:

1. ⁠git status⁠ (to see what files were modified)
2. ⁠git add .⁠ (to stage all the changes)
3. ⁠git commit -m "working state"⁠ (to save your progress)

Done. Now you have a restore point for when things go south.

Hey I'm 17 and I want to be able to do more than print hello world. I've covered rudimentary concepts in mainly Java and python in school and I want to sort of get ahead before I get into uni where I'll hopefully be pursuing a similar stream. Materials online seem to have different approaches and it's only confused me more. How do I efficiently learn how to simultaneously code and use ai tools? I'm very new to all this and any advice at all will be really helpful!

Anyone else willing to be induced into a coma and wake up only when Fable 5 comes back?

As a self taught developer who genuinely loves coding and problem solving i am struggling with this LLMs man it completely blown up client and company expectations. Now people expect you to build an entire projects from scratch in a single week. Its insane. You’re basically forced to use AI, because if you actually try to enjoy the process and write code manually, you’ll become irrelevant overnight. For those of you who still love the craft of coding, how do you manage this? Honestly, it feels like a really sad, tough time to be a developer and i hate it.

Was in a presentation today about managing personal finance. All going great. Then we get to the last 10 minutes, where someone else goes up and attempt to advertise their "app".

Ill preface this by saying I LOVE VIBECODING, but I know security flaws etc when I see them. I know how to set up SSL, UFW/firewall and have no objections to going in and rewriting code by hand if it isn't to the right standard.

So they go up and show us the app...

Glassmorphism (at least they made it pixelated to match the app),

Phrases like “revolutionizing the future of personal finance"

Pill-shaped badge above the title.

And the worst part is, they used replit. Their auth flow used replit and required login via google/github and then replit. Which app forces you to login twice? Oh. And it didn't work on mobile. At all.

I know what you are thinking... are they 12 year olds? No. These are full blown adults. As my profile clearly shows we use AI a lot, but this was too far. A 5 minute slop project being sold to investors is crazy.

Safe to say I got up there and then. (I meant got up out of there, not got up on stage. Im not that confrontational.) (No one went up to talk to them after their speech, because we could all tell.)

When I start a project everything clicks. But somewhere around week 3 it starts feeling like I'm fighting the AI instead of working with it. It stops feeling like the first session. Anyone else hit this wall? How do you get that 'early session' feeling back on a project that's already grown?

I really cannot live without grill-me. Tiny skill, but it helped me a lot when I have to get started doing anything.

What is yours?

I've been struggling with a really complex auth issue upgrading my legacy shopify app auth flow to the new session / non-session token flow. Opus 4.8 and codex5.5 both were unable to Crack the issue and introduced more bugs.

I tried using fable 5 today. Watching it work was absolutely beautiful. It came up with a elegant and clean solution to my problem in 1-shot.

I went to test it and it still didnt work, caused regressions, and cost me 3x Opus 4.8, but man it was beautiful to witness.

The people who spent years reading documentation, debugging for hours, and writing code line by line built the foundation that makes today's tools possible.

While many of us can now create things faster than ever, it's easy to forget the patience, discipline, and countless late nights that came before. Every shortcut we have today stands on the work of those who learned the hard way.

Much respect to the coders who walked so the rest of us could run.

We have to build the exact same website—the catch is that I’m only allowed to use Claude to help me, while my buddy can only use ChatGPT. That way, once we’re done, we can see which one is the most efficient and which is the best overall.

Just to clarify, we’re developers of the same skill level—we each have roughly 10 years of development experience.

I used to be a relatively normal developer. Write tickets, plan architecture, do proper PRs, the whole thing.

Then I discovered vibecoding with Cursor + Claude and now I’m cooked.

I can’t go back. The second I have an idea, I just want to open a new project, type some unhinged prompt, and watch it come to life in 45 minutes. Proper planning feels boring. Writing tests feels like punishment.

Last week I caught myself thinking “this feature would take 2 days the old way… or 40 minutes if I just vibe it.”

So I’m confessing: vibecoding has completely ruined my patience for traditional development.

Tell me I’m not alone. What’s something vibecoding has made you worse at (or less willing to do). What’s the most irresponsible thing you’ve shipped purely on vibes? Has it actually made you faster overall, or are we all just in denial?

Drop your war stories 😂

I did the math—I'm spending $150 a month on tokens, Claude.