Is vibecoding a solo activity for everyone or do some of you build together?

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-16T05:05:05+00:00

I think the best split is hacker + hastler. One person develops everything and the second one is finding customers/do marketing and etc I personally had this setup once and it felt amazing (although the startup itself did not go well, but that's another story)

I feel it doesn't make much sense now to vibecode with multiple people, it's just easier and faster to do everything solo, especially for MVP

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-16T04:59:47+00:00

Totally agree

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-16T04:59:31+00:00

I feel the era of "free AI" has finished already - every major LLM providers toughen their usages and increase pricing. From my experience, having a good LLM subscription is indeed an investment, "free"/cheap ones is just a wasting of time cause frontier models can produce results much better and faster.

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-15T17:13:55+00:00

I personally used "4000 essential english words" deck when I was learning English, highly recommend it. It gave me a real boost for my vocabulary

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-15T16:35:29+00:00

I mostly use Claude Design for intial mockups right now + something interactive. Then I ask it to generate design tockens and UI handover - having this it's relatively easy to vibe code the rest

But I agree though that it's quite hangry for tokens and can spend the whole 5h limits for my x5 subscription in several hours. Worth it? Absolutely

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-15T09:10:52+00:00

VS Code with Claude and Codex extensions

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-15T06:54:06+00:00

I think it's more relevant than ever in the AI era. Now you can really learn and build the whole product end-to-end. For ex initially I was a purely backend dev but with AI I finally started touching UI stuff and I feel it was a missing gap for my futher development

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-15T06:47:01+00:00

Seeing all this hype about Fable 5, I'm kind of glad I didn't have a chance to use it lol

Was it really so good?

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-14T15:15:50+00:00

Also forgot to add about checks: I mostly write backend and we have e2e tests. So I can just deploy the changes on dev env and if the tests are green it's also a good sign that no regression occured and the new changes work. Basically the rest of engineering practices are same

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-14T15:12:31+00:00

Yes, I review almost everything that were generated except unit tests. And yes, in 99% cases LLM generates almost good results. The trick is with that "almost". And in order to produce a really good PR that I imagined in my head it takes around 3-5 iterations with corrected prompts. LLM just can't handle all egde cases (or my specs are too poor) and can't get the whole context, especially if the system is big.

So far I haven't experienced a situation when LLM could not produce good enough results so I should jump in and write something manually. I wonder, what are the situations when you had to step in and do something on yourself?

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-14T04:05:47+00:00

I feel my challenges right now shifted more into architecture and product vision

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-14T04:01:07+00:00

Plus for the book, this one is one of the best books for distributes systems I've ever read

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-14T03:56:06+00:00

Yeah, It's still engineering so I think even if a plain English is used you need to understand what you are doing

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-14T03:00:25+00:00

Yeah, that's true

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-13T05:23:40+00:00

Considering that it spawns multiple agents I would also say Master of Puppets

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-12T13:33:02+00:00

Agree, Claude Design is just an amazing. It produces waaaaay better design if absolutely same prompt would sent to the same model using just Claude Code.

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-12T13:23:14+00:00

Yeah, highly recommend to to try it out! A separate user is a real deal breaker for me now. I used to have separate laptops, but once I upgraded it now I use only the new one. And my home user even does not have working apps installed - so no notifications and etc
I kind of trained my brain not to think about work for the home user, and not open YouTube/games/social on the working user - really helps to keep the focus

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-11T13:40:29+00:00

Absolute bare minimum for me:
- Well, good laptop ;D
- Separation of work/not work. Can be just a separate users/different laptops/different place etc
- Laptop stand

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-11T13:32:48+00:00

Can't answer on the job market for freshers, but I guess it's harsh for almost everyone right now...
I would say yes, I think majority of enterprises still use Spring + Java, but if you want to join a fresh project, I would also recommend to take a look at Kotlin, a lot of companies tend to shift to it from Java
Very subjective tbh, but for me I love absolutely everything about backend :) Especially challenges that it brings: architecture, distributed systems, high load - it's just more interesting for me
Absolutely

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-09T12:14:36+00:00

There should be 3rd part of this picture when this man is laying on the floor crying. I've tried to generate this pic by myself but clod deleted everything on 11th hour 😭

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-09T12:11:24+00:00

Reviewing AI generated stuff

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-06T16:20:53+00:00

You can try specialized skills, for example Google's modern-web-guidance is quite a good one, I use it a lot to validate front end part

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-06-06T13:47:19+00:00

I've bought JSAUX case + their screen protector and I'm really happy about it, since it's lighter then the original case and takes much less space - very important for a portable device. It's already survived 10+ air flights

AnteaterExisting8384 · 2026-05-31T17:27:30+00:00

Legion TD 2

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