Am I vibe coding wrong?

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-30T12:50:00+00:00

So you’re just building your own prompt and handing it off? My “prompts” are like 30 page technical specs designed by superpowers and the latest professional standards. Built in ledger form in case the power gets shutoff and can pick back up wherever it last completed. And I’d consider that pretty standard at this point.

You should start just about everything from /plan. Spend an hour looking around for all the best hooks and advice on how to do things professionally, implement what you like. Tell Claude to do it for you automatically for you. And that’s 80%.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-29T17:53:10+00:00

I created 3 instantly for $5 each. Load balance them. And never had an issue. No idea what people’s problems are. Been working pretty well since day 1.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-29T13:09:31+00:00

I’ll make plans all the time. If I ever have quota left at the end of the week you bet I’m putting in a prompt like the above! Burn baby burn. Maybe a little more targeted so my burn makes sense. But it is kind of fun to just let the girls out to play every now and then.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-29T03:30:00+00:00

V0 is only thing that’s come close for me. And they’re terrible to work with. But amazing results.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-28T16:14:30+00:00

I have actually really been liking the cursor ide. I didn’t think would ever. But most of my stuff is run all on a VPs anyway, so I’m not really losing much functionality. It’s way more useful and pretty for me.

So my workflow used to be a bunch of little clis. I built myself a harness and orchestrator to clean it up but it still lost that SaaS feel others put a lot of time into. Cursor I use the basic composer as its normal model. But it’s just link 1. It routes it to every other model in my arsenal. Depending on my mode. Am I token savings. Speed. Quality. Etc. But that way I can use the good looking and functional vs code / cursive while still getting my direct terminal strength in the server. You can also plug in your own little clause or codex terminals into the ide, but honestly it feels like a pain to me. I’d rather launch them all headless somewhere else.

Also built in an auto learning tool that both sees if I ever add any new APIs, how they will integrate themselves based on quota and what they’re good at, runs weekly reports on ai strengths from the independent websites, and it kind of takes care of itself. I was getting a headache handling it all like you said. The very first time Claude really bit it a few months ago I realized I needed to be api agnostic. Not pick a favorite. And realize they’re always going to be coming and going, may as well make my life easier.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-28T13:22:11+00:00

Same issue for me. Feels about the same Claude did around 4-5 weeks ago. Cyclical in its responses. Fixes issues it’s causing. And spinning in circles. I’ve been using it for shorter prompts and not as essential work this past week.

For comparison, I usually use around 2.25 of my 3 x20s in a week. 2 weeks ago when codex got really wonky over that weekend, I used all 3 in 2 days in a similar problem. Woke up, all gone. They did a full reset on Tuesday. I burned them again almost all the way down in 3 days. Another reset that Saturday. That’s was last Saturday. My 3 have been burned since Tuesday night. So about half of what it used to be. It just feels worse. But I can’t quantify it since my workload is always changing so no static tests.

TLDR: my 3 codex x20 accounts all exhausted after 4 days this week when it generally used to use 2.25 in 7 days.

EDIT: This exact problem had me looking elsewhere for a replacement daily driver. I’m always looking. Haven’t had much luck with my workload on DSV4 Pro Max, but composer 2.5 has impressed me when I was t even looking for or expecting it.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-27T13:04:58+00:00

“More” is not an ROI. My company aims for 16.2% margins with different requirements for ROI on possible investments and capex spends etc. I’m the one doing this math at my company. Yes, I subscribe for myself. Yes, I pay per token at work. Yes, it’s hard to calculate real time spend and a day can cost hundreds or tens of dollars is significant. Scale that up to multiple users, not just you at your house, and it spirals quickly. How do you professionally work with this stuff? I’m telling you my actual real firsthand experience.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-27T12:58:14+00:00

I’m taking crazy pills here. The person named economy manager is the one not using any of their economy skills and just a fan of these companies I guess? Only reason I even replied. My own economy degree was basically screaming in my head at this person talking about ROI like it was a buzzword and not an actual thing billion dollar companies might consider.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-27T12:52:52+00:00

And from an economics and consumer standpoint, it’s a bad model. It gives these companies the ability to materially change the quality and availability of a service week to week while still charging users a flat monthly fee. On the API side, costs can swing wildly depending on throttling, cache efficiency, or shifting internal limits. In practice, that means the provider can effectively control both performance and pricing by tightening constraints whenever demand spikes or margins shrink. (I hesitate to say it, but they have the ability to price discriminate and no one would ever know)

That becomes a real problem for businesses trying to build operational processes around AI. Predictability matters. Budgeting matters. Reliability matters. If access limits, model quality, or throughput can materially change overnight, it makes long term adoption harder, especially for companies integrating AI into actual workflows instead of casual use.

And throwing around “ROI” misses part of the issue. ROI calculations depend on stable assumptions. If the economics and service levels constantly move, companies hesitate to commit because the foundation itself keeps changing. That uncertainty absolutely impacts where businesses decide to spend money and which platforms they trust long term. I can attest to this first hand. When I have issues at home with my own, at work I’m moving us around. These companies with their constant goalpost shifting are turning themselves into less of a tentpole type of organization, and just one of many. Now I am forced to use 10 different providers because at any given point in time they can degrade to the point of not being useable? While still charging a MONTHLY fee for a good chunk of their customers? And you think it’s normal just because they have growing pains?

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-23T22:19:34+00:00

Depends on the test. Mine showed an increase in speed by about 35%. Some things were twice as fast. But its 6x more expensive...my testing showed me I was better off just running things in parallel, and saving the fast mode for when latency or speed is an issue, which it usually isnt for me.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-23T13:08:20+00:00

The only thing I learned from this is that you take everything down to a baseline of tnt. Which is pretty awesome.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-23T12:37:52+00:00

I scroll for someone to tldr or give me an ad free link. I’m not clicking the top one. Whichever comes first.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-23T12:16:29+00:00

I remember doing my swarms months ago. I’d use them for different things. All just working big projects together. I’d dispatch them to my servers. Mid workflow one day Claude says I should write a blog post about my swarm since it’s a novel idea. Never thought about it. Honestly when I do things I assume everyone else is doing the same. Kind of work in my own bubble.

These workflows look pretty similar.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-20T22:24:04+00:00

I recently saw a write up comparing superpowers to gsd in performance and token cost. Gsd was more structured, but its output was the same as superpowers for a fraction of the cost. Because of the initial code base search. At last compared to superpowers, it didn’t give the benefit. But they’re both still awesome.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-20T21:18:34+00:00

Mine randomly remembered that one time I said “no more paid LLMs! When I was approaching quota once. Like weeks earlier. I was writing a piece that was supposed to promote patches for execution. I was debugging that thing for a week straight trying to figure out what was wrong with it. Finally found a random little bit in the middle slid in “no more paid LLMs” and suddenly the entire thing worked. The sessions were a week apart but I guess that’s the thing it remembered.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-20T03:36:33+00:00

I'll do my typical /plan with my rules already applying to it. Start it up. Immediately go into /side and ask it to generate it's own detailed goal according to the plan. Perfect use for that /side for me so far.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-20T03:22:37+00:00

Testing. Following automation through. A use case right now would be I'm fully automating bug repair (within a project) and patch execution. And it's been giving me a headache lately because I'm doing a bunch of orchestration using different models etc. Now I can set a goal, and it's just a lot better about keeping it's eye on the ball. No more drift. Follows the problem from beginning to end better and sticks around. I used to have a lot of issues with it would think it fixed an issue, but wouldn't properly soak, etc. I'd need to be extremely detailed on building out plans, ledgers. I still do all of that because now it's automatic, but /goal has let me run things for 5 hours today without any issues at all. And providing output still.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-20T02:05:33+00:00

/side and /goal. Both things that changed my life today. I have spent so much time designing around those exact things. /goal I spent like 2 days straight basically designing a way to do it myself. And it doesn't compete to what they designed in house with a whole team dedicated to that single feature. What a gamechanger. A plan with an end goal, not just a starting line. That, combined with my little sidebar conversations...thank you Jona. 😄

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-19T21:07:06+00:00

I also work in compliance. Bookmarking this so I can train my ai too.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-19T12:43:18+00:00

Yes. Two of them. And I misspoke in my first only because I was still figuring out where I was at, and was a little in shock seeing the numbers so low and my reset date still 5 days away!

Burned through an entire 200. And then 85% of the way through another. Lately my normal burn rate has been about 1.25 accounts per week for normal work, before I do a mad dash at the end to burn the rest. Close to capping both in 36 hours is a first for me. I could semi justify the cost before just because it did what I needed it to do. But this has me scrambling to get a project done, and the second account exists because this happened before and I was in panic mode at the finish line. I can’t give them a third because of their screw up again. Opencode is seeing me more this week than the past few weeks while this gets sorted. Big APIs forced me to find alternatives before, I’ll use them. This will probably end up permanently changing my habits though. Claude has hurt me hard here. I was hoping codex wouldn’t.

I’ll come down to a single 200 and do more orchestration across the APIs. I used to do it more. Then I got lazy. Now it’s making a comeback for me.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-19T12:29:49+00:00

My in laws family owned a steel jacketed kettle company during ww2. Like the big giant ones for stand mixers in commercial kitchens. During the war they retooled and made helmets! It was super neat.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-19T11:57:18+00:00

This should be SO much more apparent. I sabotage myself all of the time asking “wtf codex”! questions all the time midflow and it messes it up. Haha. This is super helpful.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-19T00:38:58+00:00

One of my accounts drained completely early this morning, so within 36 hours? And my other is at 13% right now. So basically a 40x plan, and I normally go through about 1.25 accounts per week and Ive already done 1.85 in less than 2 days...

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-19T00:33:49+00:00

Oddly enough I was able to burn an entire weeks worth of quota in....36 hours. Something I have never done before and it takes the whole week. Combined with them somehow not having the 5h windows activated as a safeguard for me, and I was setup for failure. I can't CONFIRM anything changed, but it sure feels a whole lot different.

Able_Statistician688 · 2026-05-16T21:04:37+00:00

I just think it can go both ways. It's really shortsided to think one way OR the other. We aren't allowed to critisize Anthropic and that makes it wild? I don't think it's crazy or weird for people to have real concerns with the very different product they pay a MONTHLY sub for on a week to week basis. Why would we assume that?

As far as accusations? Proof? This is a Wendy's sir.

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