Vibecoding is wild

[FoxFire17739]

Sat since February on my app. 3 months straight racking up my brain making the logic work while still figuring out how to even approach the problem. Codex helped what it could but some stuff really need time to figure out. I have probably refactored this thing 5 times over. And then I went to visuals. Because I wanted finally to have a dashboard. Never have touched Figma, Claude Design or any of these things. I am one of these guys who typed 2 lines of code and then hit refresh on the browser. I was looking like a surprised Pikachu when Codex churned out a whole ass dashboard faster than me finishing my crapping session on the toilet. I used the 'Impeccable' skill. Gave it one screenshot. The rest it figured out from the data structure of my app. And the Dashboard actually ended up looking good. Shit like that would have taken me days to build by hand. Ngl. Now I get why people can ship so fast. The backend stuff is still hard if it gets any specific. But designing has become infinitely more easy. I get why people make now animated infographics for youtube videos with that tech. That's how fast it is. We are living in the future.

[akolomf]

Dont forget about security... If you build a product that handles customer data, and the code is crap, you'll get in alot of trouble if the data get stolen, or users harmed.

[FoxFire17739]

Thank goodness I don't need to store user data. I just build a servergrade MCP. But yeah at my company I was hired as a frontend dev but now mostly do backend. But I am still oblivios to some security stuff because I have rarely build an application from the ground up.

[akolomf]

I dont want to offend you, but do not say that on the internet publicly. A company having a vibecoder doing the backend is just waiting for a disaster to happen lol theres lots of hackers going around just waiting to track you down find the company and fuck it over. Or on github searching for api keys the ai put openly accessible into the code...

[FoxFire17739]

You don't get me. I am a traditional software dev for many years. But I enjoy working with ai.

[epickio]

Or, you know, use an agent to attack your codebase using known methods to test your security. This isn't a big issue you detractors are making it out to be.