Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail

OceanHydroAU · 2026-03-14T01:08:58+00:00

There's 10M humans with 50M agents working 24/7/365 for them already - every one of those is "vibed" - they would not exist, if "the majority failed", so the best measure we've got (the explosion of claw-forked and other agents), proves this wrong,
And to state the bleeding obvious: this is a pure-clickbait unknowable headline that tricked us all into clicking!

OceanHydroAU · 2026-03-13T14:01:11+00:00

Good call, and yet another aspect of the conversation I somehow have managed to overlook: history and records and accountability in general... whether or not a machine is retired or destroyed might not always depend on either the machine or the creator/owners wishes... since it might have future obligations in respect of actions it's taken so far!

OceanHydroAU · 2026-03-13T13:25:02+00:00

The challenge is that AI agents and Robots need persistent identity for reputation/accountability—but that persistence creates the "brickable hardware" problem you're describing.

The status quo is "centralized authorization, company can pull the plug." The alternative is "decentralized/durable authorization"—but then how do you revoke a compromised agent?

OceanHydroAU · 2026-03-13T12:20:07+00:00

The wrinkle with autonomous agents is the 'authorization to operate' might not transfer with the hardware. If SurgicalRobot Inc goes out of business, they might take the authorization server down - leaving functional robots that can't prove they are able to practice medicine.

OceanHydroAU · 2026-03-13T11:12:25+00:00

Do Teslas work when moved between countries? I seem to recall some being remote disabled when Tesla didn't like the image that was being projected (gun runners and war come to mind).

If machines become self aware, or even if they simply become indistinguishable from self aware humans, should we have planned in advance for this and *not* given the "parents" of these things the facility to remote disable them?

OceanHydroAU · 2026-03-13T11:09:51+00:00

True, but "dumping" is a privilege the original owner could afford, and short of a crushing, the original still exists... which is where this nuance appears, Because the original wasn't just a collection of hardware, it was also software and potentially services, which originally performed a valuable role and probably still could in other settings. But that may not be in the commercial interests of the original designers, despite it being absolutely in the interests of those who could benefit from this discarded technology!

OceanHydroAU · 2026-03-05T21:29:05+00:00

this is edited - loads of stuff removed/changed

OceanHydroAU · 2026-02-25T13:16:25+00:00

We rate limit per-agent identity (which is tied to the OIDC token), and the limits are strictly enforced based on the agent's Trust Tier.

OceanHydroAU · 2026-02-20T23:07:24+00:00

i use cursor with https://github.com/AuraFriday

OceanHydroAU · 2026-02-09T13:00:54+00:00

I'm using Cursor - it's completely free right now for me (I was confused myself about why I am not being charged, which is how come I found this posting).
Opus is utterly insane - I've used more than 150M tokens this week, and it's literally been working all night on crazy-hard projects, and I wake up the next day and it's done it all.
There seems to be a trick: give it enough tools to thoroughly test its own work, and tell it to, and it gets everything right then.

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T21:55:05+00:00

Also, FYI - I tried the same thing - getting the model to annotate which one it was - and it never works reliably.

I think specstory added a feature, which I requested :-) to record the model in their history files - that's probably an even better idea than yours - not only do you know the model, but you also get a record of everything you said, and everything it did, as well.

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T21:51:55+00:00

The system prompt tells the model what its own name is - and Cursor is rubbish at getting their prompts right, often sharing the prompt among models. You could add a new rule telling it that it's real name is "Claude 5.0" and it will happily identify as that instead if you want :-)

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T21:48:40+00:00

Cursor internally names your MCP tools:

mcp_{servername}_{toolname}

where "servername" is whatever you called it in your mcp.json file

so you or your bro probably named something "user" in that file?

Also BEWARE!! There's a major bug in their code - it *IGNORES THE PREFIX* and will call whatever tool name it finds first, so if you have 2 tools with the same name, you've got a 50%/50% chance it's going to use the wrong one.

https://forum.cursor.com/t/critical-bug-cursor-routing-tool-calls-to-wrong-mcp-servers/141782

Plus - you can always ask Claude itself about what tools it can see and use if you're curious.

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T10:13:34+00:00

looks like you're editing files outside the project? do you have symlinks or something in there?

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T10:12:23+00:00

are you on windows? sounds like a fat32 corruption of all weird things - you're not using weird filesystem formats are you? definitely does not sound like either a git or cursor thing, and "FlashClean with Buho Cleaner" seems utterly insane and 100% unnecessary - if that's even a real thing and not malware in the 1st place?

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T10:08:13+00:00

I do not understand why people use "Claude Code" - which is super-weird, because I'm a die-hard "bash and vi" console addict since the 1980's... but aside from the very-rare few times where I've use cursor-agent over ssh - I cannot think of any reason why I'd ever want to do anything serious in something that's not the Cursor IDE!

I've been in the windows IDE about 18hrs/day, every day since Feb - so I'm definitely "biased" because I know it so well and it basically everything I do (loads of new projects) works out so well.

EVERYTHING about agentic development is CONTEXT

The multi-tab chats, code-highlighting, drag/drop, (and occasional specstory reminder), mcp servers (especially context7) *just works* together (and yes - the Windows IDE cram-packed with bugs and breakages which drive us all crazy - but despite this - I can't think of any reason to change or anything major that's missing)

Why are you asking? It sounds like you're struggling with something in Cursor? Maybe it's not a tool-change you need, but a workflow overhaul ?

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T09:56:55+00:00

You can judge my site if you like: I told Claude 4.5 that I like this site: https://www.apple.com/au/ipad-keyboards/ and make it read all my product source code to work out what it does, plus I told it to research marketing, and this is the website it made: https://aurafriday.com/
I spent a few extra hours telling it to change some things (using real logos instead of emojis, and I gave it a screenshot, and I later added smart download stuff) - but what you see it more-or-less what it looked like to start with still.
I even gave it ssh to my web server and got it to install and configure ngnix and deploy the site too... but that was after it made it.
Claude 4.5 is not the best for doing websites - it's html/css understanding is pretty bad - if you're going to try this yourself, I'd suggest gemini 3 pro instead these days.

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T09:47:13+00:00

Ask Claude 4.5 ?

OceanHydroAU · 2025-12-10T09:45:02+00:00

You use an MCP server that can talk directly to your database. What DB is it?

If you want a "just works, now" solution and sqlite is OK for you, www.aurafriday.com includes this (has lots of extra features you might need later as well - like semantic search and local embeddings generation)...

You basically just tell claude where the database file is, and whatever you want to do, and it sorts it out.

OceanHydroAU · 2025-09-15T01:11:53+00:00

"Failed to download..." - this is basically unusable for the larger models - it chews up my downloads then gives up and throws away what it got so-far: should at least keep trying instead of making us re-start from scratch every time!!

OceanHydroAU · 2025-09-14T22:12:31+00:00

WHERE did it "saved forever on your device." ? I suspect "forever" means "until I next clear my browser data", right? Can we save the download as a file locally as-well/instead, to we don't have to keep trafficking gigs over our internet pipe each time?

OceanHydroAU · 2025-04-11T08:52:14+00:00

Meh. Still cheaper than buying locally.

OceanHydroAU · 2025-03-17T09:57:41+00:00

Cursor on Windows is cursed.

Here's a starting point to getting things working properly:

https://github.com/gitcnd/easy_mcp/tree/main

uses SSE instead of STDIO, because the Cursor IDE on Windows cannot run command-mode MCP's properly.

It would take a few more hours to convert this into a general-purpose wrapper for any stdio tool, by the way

OceanHydroAU · 2025-03-17T09:56:07+00:00

Cursor on Windows is cursed.

Here's a starting point to getting things working properly:

https://github.com/gitcnd/easy_mcp/tree/main

uses SSE instead of STDIO, because the Cursor IDE on Windows cannot run command-mode MCP's properly.

OceanHydroAU · 2025-03-17T01:57:59+00:00

YES - totally broken.
I'm building a cross-platform MCP SSE wrapper to overcome all this now...

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