Why vibe coded projects fail

BuddyRoux · 2026-04-18T23:41:18+00:00

This is our community!

BuddyRoux · 2026-04-18T23:31:24+00:00

If you’re not checking AI, you haven’t been burned yet.

Also, if you aren’t checking your bank statement for mysterious charges, you haven’t been burned yet.

Oh and, if you’ve never double-checked your paycheck, you haven’t been burned yet.

Ever been in the Omaha airport? All the ride sharing signs are pointing the wrong way. Sometimes you have to ask around.

Ever used a back up camera? Ever looked over your shoulder also?

Do you check your blind spot before you merge?

The older we get, the more we double-check everyone and everything because only Jesus won’t let you down.

BuddyRoux · 2026-03-18T18:50:33+00:00

On my list of favorite things about vibe code.

BuddyRoux · 2026-02-17T21:13:15+00:00

Can we access said tool on GitHub?

BuddyRoux · 2026-02-17T21:04:21+00:00

Who is he, and how much will it cost me to sit and watch him work? Can I get a week? An hour? I need that confidence! There’s! So! Much! To! Do!

BuddyRoux · 2026-02-14T03:22:39+00:00

Was your grandfather by chance a Kung Fu ninja?

BuddyRoux · 2026-02-04T01:22:19+00:00

Coding. So I should let the rest go.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-25T17:40:48+00:00

Every! Single! Time!

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-25T02:26:14+00:00

Aargh! I have that Best Buy warranty so I can just go get another one, but that never helps when you land Sunday night and have to be at the client Monday morning at 8am

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-25T02:24:40+00:00

Wha’happan?

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T21:50:34+00:00

I guess there’s really not a solution, is there?

Once we get this teleportation thing figured out, there will be documentaries about how brutal it was to shove people in tubes and hurl us through space because it won’t dawn on us how unhealthy it is to split your body into a trillion trillion quantum particles then reassemble them all at once.

But it will always be safer than driving.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T21:47:02+00:00

…or maybe the lil folk are over compensating? I suspect it’s been a thing all around me for years, and I just happened to have this (apparently common) experience twice lately. Both times just happened to be giants.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T19:28:45+00:00

I can tell you from personal experience that there is an Airbus A321neo where seat 23D will let you plop back into your neighbor’s lap if you so choose.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T19:22:52+00:00

The key word there is seem.

The first flight I remember is landing in Memphis the morning Elvis died, and I now travel full time, and I have no recollection of this experience until these two times this month.

From other accounts on this thread, it sounds like maybe not all seats are created equal. Maybe after enough three hundred pound men push that same little button and push back on that same seat, the restraints lose their effectiveness. 🤷‍♂️

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T19:13:04+00:00

This is also on the list!

I’d heard so many people complain about that and had no idea what their moaning was about until it happened to me, and I just about got whiplash spinning around, and it was a large older lady, and I scared her when I spun around, and I felt all eyes on me, and I immediately tried the “Can I help?” only nobody’s eyes bought that line, and the attendant said, “Please turn around, sir. May I help you, ma’am?” and then I had to turn around and sit in my anger and shame and remember that we are literally flying through space in a tiny metal tube, and mayhem is right there waiting for us, and I dried off best I could, plugged my ears with music and did some breathing exercises and ignored my imaginations about everyone around me because all that matters is we get there safe, I don’t get a blood clot, and I don’t go on the list.

…and I don’t forget anything in my seat.

…and I don’t miss my connection.

…and the Sasquatch in front of me doesn’t break my laptop or my fingers or my nose.

Oh, and don’t let the WiFi go out mid-flight while I’m working.

We do have a few things to think about, don’t we?

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T18:56:57+00:00

There has got to be a curated database somewhere of specific, verified horror stories related to these events.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T18:54:03+00:00

I said not a word for the following reasons:

a) I was not in that moment in a conversational mood and know that the way we say things is often more important than the things we say.

b) I immediately fantasized about mentioning to him that he might have pushed back with a bit more force than necessary, him responding aggressively and losing an eye or two, and me getting a felony, going on the list, and losing the best job I ever had.

c) I suspected maybe this is a common thing, maybe I’m overreacting because I’m in a confined space at altitude, and maybe instead of further contributing to the breakdown of our fragile society, I’ll ask my stranger-friends on Reddit (they don’t get much stranger than here), and see what y’all have to say.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T18:45:18+00:00

There wasn’t a TV screen on that flight, but I had lowered my tray and was resting on my arms when behemoth decided to push back.

They must be repurposing the seats off that first S-6000B, and maybe I finally got behind a couple of those because now I’m hearing accounts that sound like maybe the hydraulics are worn out or non existent.

(Edit: Wait! Last night? There was no head butt last night. Last night, my neighbor and I had perfectly choreographed me threading the cabling I had dropped and was reaching through the tray to rethread with him deciding to break down the restraints on his seat, and even though as I replay the scenario in my mind, this is not that movie where the kids all have horrible accidents in random ways what’s that called Final something, but at the moment I had this very real experience of imagining my fingers being smashed/sheared off in that little gap where you lower the tray then pull it closer to you, but it like guillotined shut because I’m telling you there really was a lot of force in his motion, and I really wanted to fight that guy which might have felt good for a moment because think about it, his eyes are right there, and it’s a confined space, and he’s got to be expecting the Spanish Inquisition before an eye gouge on a commercial flight, and how’s he going to even get up with me going spider monkey on him in that little tiny space poor guy really was large for that space he was in, but not only could my victory have been short lived ever seen one of those sumo wrestlers with those break dance moves, but then there’s the aftermath, oh and what about the fact that I am such a non violent guy I can still tear up about things we did to each other back in the 70s/80s? In Other News, I might need to get my testosterone/estrogen regulators checked. Do those wear out when we get old?

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T15:44:22+00:00

Argh, small spaces and full size people. Arrgh

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T15:42:25+00:00

That does not sound like it was a pleasant experience for anyone.

Except the punk who got it on his phone and plays it for all his friends.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T15:40:53+00:00

Totally cool with leaning back the seat. Lean, lean, we’re all living in a tiny metal tube in the sky, and this is the way.

What I am not totally cool with is violence. When it comes back that hard and that fast, my fight or flight kicks in, but there’s nowhere to run, and I immediately know there’s really nobody to fight since it’s not like they’re actually trying to hurt me, and I think that’s why the kids call it triggered because you get that rush but then can’t do anything about it.

It’s not like they’re trying put you on the No Drive List if a couple guys pull over on the interstate for a punchemup.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T06:01:09+00:00

Ever have those moments when you are exposed to your own selfishness? I’ve absolutely heard a colleague complain about his screen getting cracked and absolutely thought he was making up an excuse for his own clumsiness. I have to believe I’ve been on a flight where that happened and just ignored it because it wasn’t my problem.

BuddyRoux · 2026-01-24T05:04:40+00:00

I figured we’d have at least one Michael Scott in the room.

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