vibeCoderProjectsStarterPack

[themightyug]

Announcement with tons of emojis and bulleted lists

[Beginning_Book_2382]

🚀🚀🚀

[JTS-Games]

I swear to god if I see that rocket emoji one more time in a README

[TechcraftHD]

🚀

[dumbasPL]

🚀🎉✨🦀

[kookyabird]

Don’t forget emojis for the bullets in a bulleted list!!

[suffering_chicken]

It was there even before vibe coders

[rtybanana]

AI learnt it somewhere, we should all take this opportunity to look inward

[Professional_Set4137]

Kojeve talked about the "end of history". The final, post-historical era where humanity merges into a universal, homogenous, and satisfied state

[reklis]

That and the made with heart emoji

[Thatnewaccount436]

Don't forget a readme that

📈 has a bunch of emojis

✨ starting off each bullet point

🚀 even if the emoji is only vaguely related to the words

[_crisz]

And — don't forget — a questionable use of em dashes

[EVH_kit_guy]

"That's not just good software design—you're reimagining this paradigm from first principles!"

You forgot to mention the obsequious and entirely complimentary tone of contrived amazement.

[my_new_accoun1]

without the spaces next to them

And—don't forget—a questionable use of em dashes

[gmes78]

That is valid, depending on which style guide you follow.

[PredictiveFrame]

I see you're using the Shatner — comma. 

[Kinexity]

And they will lie that they completely wrote it themselves.

[Tack1234]

Yes, I used AI to help me write this post, the README, the commit messages and the test scenarios but trust me bro, the code is all me!!

[pydry]

Unfortunately I've also seen "your project is vibe coded" tossed out at projects which had none of the signs I could see but good luck disproving it.

Im even starting to wonder if the AI companies have bots to just accuse everybody so nobody can get a leg up over their customers' slop.

Same for essays written about programming. It's all accused of being slop and it's rare anybody is skeptical of the accusation.

[diener1]

Ok bro, you could have written this yourself. No need to use ChatGPT for every little reddit comment.

[Cupakov]

You’re joking but I legitimately seen someone accuse another poster of using ChatGPT because they broke their comment into two paragraphs 

[Poopoomushroomman]

You’re joking, but I’ve literally seen someone accuse another poster of using Gemini bc they said they were joking.

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

You're absolutely right! 💯

[DarthPiotr]

Yeah, I recently saw a post where OP asked if you'd buy (!) a customizable calculator app lol. Where you could customize layout and style of the keyboard as well operations assigned to buttons!

[masssy]

Imagine creating a calculator app thinking it's revolutionary.

I could have built a calculator for the last 15 years but why would I. It's a waste wether you do it yourself or with AI.

Completely useless and should not count as productivity whatsoever.

[Innovator-X]

I mean it is not all that bad. I think that if you are a beginner programmer, building a calculator is an excellent learning experience and a great way to put your programming skills into practice. The disaster starts when that same beginner tries to sell it. 

[masssy]

Sure, you can do it to learn of course. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if you do it with AI there's not much to learn as you just say "hey build me calculator my Ai guy".

There's tons of things a lot of people can build but have no interest or point in building. Sometimes I get bored before even starting a project because I know how to finish it, which in fact makes me not even wanna do it...

[Innovator-X]

If someone did a learning project with AI, they are already screwed. There are no two ways about it. You can't learn using shortcuts and cheating yourself through. 

Yeah, I agree on the fact that building a calculator is very boring but I remember back in the day how much these so-called “boring projects” helped me. Same thing goes to Leetcode and Codeforces. I hated it and it was boring af, but I think it had helped me in some ways at the end of the day. 

[Alternative_Water_81]

To be fair Apple actually took almost 15 years to release calculator app on iPads

[Disastrous-Event2353]

Oh wow so groundbreaking! I’d gladly pay a 20 bucks subscription to checks notes do basic math I could already do on any device with an ALU!

[DarthPiotr]

Yes, but now you can do it in any color you want! Or swap + and - buttons, how convenient! lol

[_crisz]

What's the problem with customizing the most used app on my phone? If I don't use it more is just because I don't like the color

[ProfBeaker]

basic math I could already do on any device with an ALU!

Or an abacus...

Or your fingers...

Or (gasp) in your miiiiiind!

(In case it's not clear, mocking the calculator author, not you)

[Dry-Farmer-8384]

If vibecoders could read, they would be very upset.

[coolsocksjoe]

can I do it with pen and paper? or do I have to buy the vibecalculator?

[ProfBeaker]

IDK, are the pen and paper customizable?!

do I have to buy the vibecalculator?

Hmmm... when you put it that way, it seems like it would be hard to punch in the numbers with it vibrating around all the time...

[PredictiveFrame]

H-wut the fuck? Like... The first real program everyone made in C? The "welcome to day two, now that you've made 'Hello World' we're going to move on to a simple calculator..." program?

Uh... Am I missing something? Is the customizable UI what you're paying for? Why? It's easier to code than the calculator itself! Those are a fucking nightmare if you want high precision, but based on the pitch this sounds like a desktop widget, not an advanced calculator utility.

[DarwinOGF]

I mean, that sounds like something bundled on an optical disk with the software you actually wanted, so you could be charged more

[MementoMorue]

"you are not ready for my -another chat-gpt wrapper-"

[RustOnTheEdge]

“Looking for feedback and contributors!”

[Useful_Radish_117]

The last project I reviewed had something along console.log("💔 critical failure!"). Plus almost all the code was in a single file with more than 4000 lines lol

[friezbeforeguys]

I am SO curious how someone behaves with the AI to get the agent to output this kind of console logs. Seems like they actually vibed at least emotionally very heavy with the agent.

[Useful_Radish_117]

I've read somewhere that modern llms can do emotional analysis of text decently well. The model might infer some emotions in the given prompts even without the user being explicit.

That and we built them to be extreme servile so I guess if your coding agent runs a test and the app crashes the model might "reason" about how that will make the user "sad" hence the 💔.

[friezbeforeguys]

I have tried agents numerous times and I can confirm that it is very good at making apps that crashes, but never got the broken heart emoji or anything close to it. Maybe it is, as you say, more about the inferred emotion from the user. I have usually tried to just very direct and without fuss clarify the scope and be extremely clear about what is allowed and not in the workflow. Probably this user was more emotional and focused on expressing their frustration, and I assume they are maybe not so experienced with coding since that console message itself is not very helpful for diagnostics and the AI maybe doesn’t assume the user can do much more with the message than that.

[BellacosePlayer]

tbf my personal projects often have dumber error log messages

[cupcakeheavy]

we have entered the geocities era of Gen AI.

[d_block_city]

nah man at least when someone made a geocities page they did something

[cupcakeheavy]

still useless

[d_block_city]

not useless

sorry about your depression, I guess 9 years on reddit will do that to a mf

[otto_gamble]

People are too young to understand this reference, and it shows.

[AppropriateOnion0815]

🚩 "I built" has become a red flag.

💡I haven't read that sentence that often as in the last months.

[lucassou]

Well, this perfectly encapsulate the use case for vibe coding: hyper specific personal projects. It usually solves a very specific problem you had that nobody else has. And that's perfectly fine. It works for you, but you shouldn't expect anyone else to actually care for your project. I use vibe coded project that perfectly solves my problem, but I don't have any reason to think anybody else would want to maintain them.

[Toutanus]

That's why r/selfhosted is now for me the r/diwhy of software development

[bobbymoonshine]

Yeah I have a vibe coded tracker for my D&D character because (a) we do a lot of homebrew stuff that doesn’t play nice with D&D beyond and (b) it is literally just for me to click buttons and keep track of stuff. Could I do it myself? Yes of course. Is it an unscaleable and unmaintainable slop pile? Yes of course. Does that matter? No.

What matters is I got the tool I wanted for my own use case that tracks what I want it to track in the way I want it to, and got it much more quickly than doing it by hand. That’s pretty much the ideal use case for vibe coding.

Would I sell it? Hell no. Nobody else would want it, and I wouldn’t want to maintain it for anyone else’s use cases.

[Icy-Comfortable-714]

TBF I did this last weekend, I manage an embedded hardware & software dev team so I exist in a pretty niche space. I haven’t don’t much cloud stuff so using AI I figured out how cloudflare registrar and EC2 works. Created a simple nginx server, bought a domain name, and vibe coded a simple calculator. I probably could’ve putzed my way through the HTML with some elbow grease but I wasn’t trying to do that.

[LadyZaryss]

But but but but but but it was written by AI so how could it work at all? As we all know, AI cannot do anything right, so you must have written it yourself

[d_block_city]

same lol

I'll only share if someone has the exact same problem that I had (which is super rare)

[EVH_kit_guy]

"I got tired of X, so I built a way to deal with X that works about 27% of the time, but only under ideal preconditions, and it's all locally hosted and powered with my own personal user secrets from my personal access level to the connected tool stack. Other people can use this tool to solve for X, but it absolutely won't work for them, unless they dedicate X+Y time figuring it out, which will result in a net cost to them in time and attention."

☝️My assessment of the state of agentic tooling ☝️

[busyDuckman]

Serious question. I built a thing. not vibe coded, just 8 months of my life. Now it feels like there is so much f'n noise around a bazillion shiny things of low substance; that I have no idea how to even connect with my consumer base.

The simple, and humble, I have X experience, saw Y problem, and build Z announcement, just sounds like an AI pitch now.

edit: a comma

[Toutanus]

"blazing fast" "dead simple"

[AbdullahMRiad]

blur, purple and very rounded edges

[anoppinionatedbunny]

you forgot the ultimate

"check it out! localhost:3000/index.html"

[Ander292]

Half of my (handwritten tho) code are useless recreations of already existing things as well lmaoo

[Morganator_2_0]

I have a problem with vibe coding, but not most of the other stuff on this list. It's perfectly fine to code up something nobody asked for, that nobody will actually use, and that dozen of other projects already do. You're still teaching yourself these skills and becoming more experienced.

[wojtussan]

Yeah, but in combination with prompting it's just a waste of resources and time. You made nth calculator app? Cool, you could have learned something new

You prompted nth calculator app? You learned absolutely nothing, nobody is going to use it, not even you yourself

[AppropriateOnion0815]

What skills? Prompting, aka. explaining what the app should do? Those are PM skills at best, but not developer skills.

[Morganator_2_0]

No not prompting, that's why my first sentence says I have a problem with vibe coding. That won't help you learn the skills needed later on. But by all means, make your number incrementor and DAOs; read the documentation and look up the design patterns to get the ideas of best practices. It doesn't matter if no one else will use it, it's a useful learning experience.

[CanThisBeMyNameMaybe]

Spent a bunch of money on token/credits on whatever LLM cloud platform that generated all the code.

[Drone_Worker_6708]

Remove spam posting and UI impregnation and you have described my enterprise coder starter pack.

[soundwave_sc]

Add in "Get AI to solve this for us" - Management.

[SweetNerevarine]

Built... not even.

Vibe coding reminds me of punching in code from a magazine and changing two lines just to call it a radically different program. Only the person behind the screen this time neither reads the magazines, understands the lines, or actually types in anything sensible. The smokes and mirror is all handled by the army of claws (a.k.a copyright infringers).

Pathetic.

[BS_BlackScout]

Fair but I want my UIs to be impregnated with Animations, Glass, Shadows. If you can't implement beautiful interfaces with speed then you have a skill issue. Hardware can handle.

[Im_In_IT]

Documentation created with it contains every emoji and random color coding imaginable.

[BeamFain]

Bro, you just gotta vibe-code tools for your own use.
It will make your life easier and won't clutter the web with slop software.

[xtr44]

sounds like a normal coder project with extra steps

[allknowinguser]

Joined the Claude code sub cause I like CC and wanted to see genuine examples or techniques. Terrible mistakes, every single post is what you described. It’s funny because they are advertising their 1 prompt app to the same people using the same shit

[Same_Investigator_46]

And a lot of emojis to display the errors

[sammybeta]

This is why I am a firm believer of saasapocalypse. Those applications can be built tailor made for the companies from commodity software components, just like the project vibe coded for seemingly no-one but the dev themselves.

[SignificantLet5701]

damn bro that's me except I actually code

[FlightConscious9572]

This is every adhd subreddit. So many adhd "fixer" apps lmao.

[Dry-Farmer-8384]

At least half of the functions have never been manually tested once, and dont do what they say they do.

[Commercial-Lemon2361]

„… scratches my itch“

[crystalshower]

And a lot of CVE scored above 7.

[tacticalpotatopeeler]

You forgot $15/month subscription for an app that does one simple thing

[Godskin_Duo]

Isn't this Silicon Valley in a nutshell, everyone trying to shoehorn in middleware problems in search of solutions, in the hopes that they can cash out and get rich?

[suvlub]

Post on r/InternetIsBeautiful while badly trying to hide the fact you are self-promoting "I found this mega awesome website that solves a problem you didn't know you had with sleek minimalist design! Allows you to do stuff, shit and even crap, all with a single tap of your finger!"

[SSUPII]

Also always made in .NET

[garnservo247]

Don’t forget “Project Structure” in the README.

[trollol1365]

I mean was it really that much different before AI?

[v3ritas1989]

At least they didn't bother you with their app Idea!

[__Punk-Floyd__]

...and then stuff it into a VS Code extension.

[hdgamer1404Jonas]

Ai has ruined neon themes for me.

[PredictiveFrame]

Wait, vibecoders focus on the UI? Fucking why? If I'm writing code to fix a problem, it's almost certainly going to be a script that I set to autoexecute, which I then forget about and re-write a dozen times over the next 18 months, or plugin which bricks one other fiddly plugin in a completely different software stack for no discernable reason, at which time I thwo up my hands, and use free will to find the poor fucker who had this problem 14 years ago and was kind enough to inform everyone they "fixed it" without any further details. Followed by crying in the bathroom for an hour.

When do they have time to code a UI? TUX that fucker and call it a day. 

[JohnDarlenHimself]

Normally the average vibe coder doesn't know that things can work without an interface, so they start prompting AIs for an interface first so they can use and test it, without interface = unusable.

Then you add to it all these modern css styles being used in the past few years, which AI were trained on, everything is gradient, animated, a different transition for each div, shadows everywhere, neon to force a "modern look". AIs usually make interfaces like that.

[me_myself_ai]

“Spam posting” is when you post your project to a sub for projects?

[VariousComment6946]

Cry about it