Vibe Coding Lets AI Build Apps from Plain Descriptions
Developers share experiences building apps via plain prompts to AI and debate the term vibe coding.
Posts show users describing apps in simple language to AI models and watching code appear. One reply highlighted a wrap-it-up skill that saves session details for fresh starts. Another questioned the vibe coding label and urged calling it AI coding instead. A hot take noted most users would accept fully vibe-coded apps while only developers focus on the process. One developer said the approach increased respect for pre-AI work. A hosting platform was referenced that manages security, databases, and rollbacks for such projects.
Hot take: Most users would happily use a 100% vibe-coded app. Only developers care how the sausage was made.
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Vibe Coding Lets AI Build Apps from Plain Descriptions
Developers share experiences building apps via plain prompts to AI and debate the term vibe coding.
Posts show users describing apps in simple language to AI models and watching code appear. One reply highlighted a wrap-it-up skill that saves session details for fresh starts. Another questioned the vibe coding label and urged calling it AI coding instead. A hot take noted most users would accept fully vibe-coded apps while only developers focus on the process. One developer said the approach increased respect for pre-AI work. A hosting platform was referenced that manages security, databases, and rollbacks for such projects.
Hot take: Most users would happily use a 100% vibe-coded app. Only developers care how the sausage was made.
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Scott Cywinski@ScottCywinskiUsers don't know what they don't know. Do you want the knowledgeable surgeon operating on you or a hack who doesn't know what they are doing? Your comment actually proves what has been lost with software development. It doesn't matter what the user's think. Software…
NM ND Minds & AI@patternstatic@devops_prashant Users care how the sausage was made when it starts deleting their data at 2am. Otherwise yeah, provenance is mostly a developer hobby until reliability sends the invoice.
LW Learn With Santosh@learn_with_san@devops_prashant True, until you try to scale or add a real feature. That's when the 'vibe' breaks and users suddenly care a lot about how the sausage was made.
RE Ryan Edkins@ryanedkins@ben_sage Same here, vibecoding gave me a whole new respect for what developers were actually doing this whole time.
NV Nic Vandewetering@nvandewetering@ben_sage Thank you to all that got us here by hand. You the real MVPs
LB Leo builds@LeoBuilds_@devops_prashant Exactly. No user have ever asked about the code.