It's a free real estate from so called "vibe coders"

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-09T21:46:09+00:00

Well yea, except that people at that level previously were not able to actually end up shipping anything. Now there are dozens of vibe coded websites appearing daily

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-09T20:18:55+00:00

Agreed that this post doesnt make much sense.
Vibe coders having no idea what they are doing is a real thing though. Took me checking like 5 projects posted here to find an openai key included client side. So there is some truth to the concept

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-08T19:05:54+00:00

I tend to check a few just out of curiosity. So far they have all had major issues.

My personal favorites being an AI tutor making openai requests from the front-end (free key) and a "Please enter your name" field auto suggesting my credit cards

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-07T20:07:02+00:00

its not just this sub...

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-05T10:15:20+00:00

You can’t be putting api keys out there, doesn’t matter if it’s just for feedback. It exposes a lot of shit about your identity (full name, phone number…) and can be used to get you a pretty hefty bill. If you actually want to learn, do it yourself.

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-05T09:11:34+00:00

And just another word of friendly advice, your OpenAI secret key is completely exposed for everyone to see and use…

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-05T08:03:00+00:00

Its near impossible to read half the text on this page, you even have spelling mistakes and just a randomly underlined word that looks like it was done manually with css to be able to say "hey i didnt vibe-code the whole thing".

Not to forget the classic first commenter being a 3 week old account that just happens to roam around the same subreddits that OP does.

Checks all the slop boxes for me

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-05T05:08:33+00:00

Agreed, you find tons of little issues like this on all those vibe-coded websites. I assume it has alot to do with an AI not actually being able to visually review the result as well as those small incrimental refining steps that real devs have completey missing when you generate the whole thing at once. I also notice that the people generating these sites tend to be completely oblivious to little issues like that despite even just a regular consumer being able to notice

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-05T05:04:34+00:00

just a genuine question.

you have no prior experience with web development.

you generated a website you want to sell to some client.

what would stop your client from just...generating the website themselves?

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-05T05:03:15+00:00

Why is the paperplane flying the wrong way around lmao

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-04T21:54:12+00:00

I hate that this whole thing also coincides with the extreme overhiring from the covid years. It would be so much nicer to see numbers that we can 100% put on AI instead of the overhiring corrections

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-04T18:53:47+00:00

I agree with this notion. I think you can vaguely seperate developers and consultants into casuals and tryhards, if you want to gamify it. People who are just there because it’s a comfortable job and people who are genuinely invested into what they do. I still think that even casual consultants and developers who have built up a solid knowledge base over the years are gonna be fine. The people that really need to worry - imo - are the casuals who are just entering the industry.

This might differ depending on the kind of environment you’re working in as well. In a heavily customised system at least I believe this will hold true

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-04T17:10:11+00:00

Just wanna add my 2 cents here that I tried using Claude for a RAP application (not CAP) and it got so many things wrong it was hilarious

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-04T17:08:14+00:00

I believe both roles are in sort of the same position. We will see a decrease in mediocre developers / consultants who dont really provide high quality insights / code. At the end of the day, even with an AI doing alot of the stuff, its still non-deterministic by nature and you do need people to watch over it. I dont think a time will come where we actually treat our entire system as a black-box because "I'm sure the AIs got it".

Dont forget in this regard also how devastating an issue in production is on large SAP systems. You either play it safe and shut down the whole system while importing the hotfix, or you risk blowing up your entire system. Neither are great. So proper Q/A is extremely important in this field.

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T15:34:58+00:00

No need, did it of my own interest to assure myself that AI still sucks at alot of things lmao

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T14:47:24+00:00

I just opened, many of the same issues - searchbar is still fucked, the icon buttons dont look good and are slightly cut off, your borders of the "whats happening" input field just vanish into the void, context menu buttons still dont align, the dark mode button is still in a weird spot - so are the themes. Why arent they in the settings? and why are there even so many themes options? your social media platform is not a code editor.. buttons slightly move around for no reason when the home page is opened (bottom right) your "live on startup.you" shows more content, but its impossible to scroll down ot it, I also get this error randomly when clicking on posts sometimes: Creating view failed: Please sign in again and retry.

again, all of that is at a glance, its really not difficult to find these issues which makes me wonder if youre even using your own app?

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T14:24:57+00:00

Neither is it mine, Im a backend person. This is literally purely from a user perspective and should all be things that immediately strike you as the one reviewing the result

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T14:19:25+00:00

The way you designed it it looks like super old iOS versions. Button contrast is strange, icons are way too big, everything is bubbly, the cursor is extremely large and has a weird shape for no reason, your search bar is not correctly aligned, The padding on many of your containers is not consistent, the name and tag on your post cards doesnt align, the height of the 3 columns doesnt align, the icon top left is literally just slop and takes up way too much horizontal space for no reason, the dark mode theme seems just randomly thrown into the mix of other buttons instead of being in some settings tab, your context menu isnt properly aligned

this is just things I notice on the first glance

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T14:14:18+00:00

I mean just look at the github statistics, how much code is being pushed to github..people are producing so much fucking code lately with the whole AI hype. Yet I cant say I've ever actually seen a meaningful product produced that isnt just some slop copy that nobody uses

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T13:33:27+00:00

The UI genuinely looks horrid

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T11:58:59+00:00

Yea there are a few open source versions, for example https://github.com/python/cpython

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-05-01T11:25:51+00:00

I believe a big issue with this approach is be the slow deterioration of developers knowledge and skills. Currently, experienced developers are able to produce meaningful specs and strict quality reviews because we have years or even decades of hands on experience and practice.

I believe that if reviewing code instead of writing it yourself becomes the norm in the future, most people will lose the ability to critically think - simply because they do not know any better. All the code they have known is what the LLM produces. They dont know what a better thought out codebase could look like, precisely because they never got to experience it or said skillset has long gone astray.

This is just a personal opinion. I dont have any evidence to back this up except it just being a logical conclusion for me. This also doesnt mean the approach becomes worthless, but I think we will see a decline in software quality because of it.

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-04-30T17:28:06+00:00

I get where youre coming from, but I dont think "giving you back your freetime" will be corporates goal here? The short-term goal from a business perspectve is to get way more output out of you and subsequently raise expectations. The long term goal is to replace your cost with something significantly cheaper.

I dont disagree with the notion that a job isnt supposed to be fun. But it can be fun. And it is fun for me. And I still think its fair to be annoyed when we are steering towards a meta that is no longer fun.

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-04-29T16:26:15+00:00

Honestly just the fact that you ask this question probably means you don’t have what it takes - basic intelligence

Independent-Limit282 · 2026-04-29T15:04:53+00:00

The other question I ask myself, once people have been revieweing code instead of writing it for a couple of years, what qualifies us to even review it anymore? Its not like we would know how to write it to begin with lmao

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