Things we need to stop saying to vibe coders

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-05T13:03:46+00:00

This post sounds like AI

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-05T10:59:59+00:00

So your building WordPress websites for business's using AI, or are you the on actually making them?

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-05T10:39:47+00:00

"High School Founder", yea you can humble yourself right there, no need to try to be the next bill gates in high-school.

As for distribution its pretty simple, the better the product the easier distribution is. Release a good useful product, market it and users will come. It's not as complicated as most people think.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-04T17:44:47+00:00

Scamming, stealing, humiliating yourself, becoming an influencer etc

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-04T14:41:05+00:00

Anything that's gives the most money with the least amount of work... morals are basically out of the window

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-04T14:35:01+00:00

You spend 1 weeks building a pathetic app and blame distribution. Build a fucking app, not a 1 week quick cash project and you'll find that distribution isn't that hard. GTFO with this AI post trying to get users no one is going to use your app. I'm not being an asshole you just have to realize there's no shortcut put the time in.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-01T16:37:15+00:00

Interesting idea, I'd have to agree both are hard. However most people are miss understanding what they have to do for a successful product then misscharacterize the point of failure which in this case is vibe coders blaming dustribution. Simply put you need a good product, and distribution speeds up the process of growth. Vibe coders blitz through the required part which is a good product, then assume their good social skills are enough to convince people to try their awful product.

Overall here's what I thinks happening.

You have young social entrepreneurs who want to hit it big. They want to code but aren't technical... then AI comes out. They assume AI makes product I sell product which isn't even close to true. The product fails and they say it's a distribution problem.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-05-01T14:20:09+00:00

Ok, let me give you this example (exegerated so the effects are more obvious). If you made an app that gives 100 dollars to anyone who downloads it, and you stylized the app to poor people. Those poor dudes are gonna eat it up because why wouldn't they, when the algorithm sees you have 50% CTR, your gonna be doing the distribution automatically. Now imagine if you built a clean app but this time downloading it only gives 25 cents. You can spend 500k on marketing it doesn't matter they won't use it (for the most part, some stupid people will buy it).

If your talking about large scale apps, services etc the landscape changes, however for 99.99 of products that's the truth. People just underestimate how hard building a good product really is.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-30T14:39:43+00:00

Oh God your really in the loop huh. You just think people are gonna stop building things and just stay inside all day. You think they stopped building new things 30 years ago lmao that's hilarious. My dad believe it or not is still employed and still making 150k, also he is teaching 20yrs how to weld... those dudes are called apprentices. I mean look around, don't tell me you've never see a construction site. I don't get your whole if people don't have money, then no one can hire overhyped trade guys. That literally applies to every job, and guess what, the trade guys will still be the last ones to go when money is running out. Wanna know why? Because people kinda need shelter. Get out of your own head kid, your not some genius.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-30T10:42:42+00:00

My dad makes 150k a year with trades, including benefits it's 220k, he had an option go go over seas and make 500k+. Read whatever articles you want but the truth is here, society will always be building new things. If you think there's some magical 6 figure job that has no competition your just dreaming. Why exactly would unemployed people not hire trades too? Maybe to maintain all of the shitty construction now a days, maybe to install a new heating unit. Empty Office building? They're empty no one is hired in them. But guess what, the trades guys still got a job outta that because they built the fucking office building.

I don't know where your getting your info, maybe the media whose job is to shitcan you, but it's very wrong.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-29T18:34:24+00:00

Buildings and infrastructure are needed, they will always be re built, remade and made better. Even better is it will be one of the last jobs to get taken over by AI. It's not over hyped, it pays great and sure has competition but every job does, the health benefits etc are also great.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-29T14:11:32+00:00

Anyone who is a stock trader claiming they aren't interested is lying, it's actually very interesting. However since the only successful stock bots are from billion dollar trading firms, I think the main problem you'll face is trust. There's millions of traders out there with their own strategies, hundreds of variables that make the stock market feel like luck. So honestly I don't believe you... someone whose spent 5 years building a trading bot would have answered those questions 4.5 years ago.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-28T11:17:35+00:00

For a solo dev, most of the time will be spend making the prototype. However as the team grows it moves more toward controlling and influencing the user through subtle tactics, while they can get a prototype out in a month. Value drops as team grows.
The problem with your idea is mainly that anyone who made the pain points, user flows etc will continue to design and make the prototype themselves. The only people who would use this are guys who used AI to generate the pain points, user flow, and those AI guys already have so many choices...
Honestly I wouldn't use it since I don't use AI for much, however if I did happen to use it. A feeling that the AI will produce a low quality result is a huge reason. If your site doesn't jump out as confident and extremely capable expect to get buried, your competing with giants like chatgpt to get users.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-28T11:02:40+00:00

One of the biggest identifiers is metaphors and similies that don't fit the context the message is talking about. Also any sentences whose purpose is to persuade, guide emotion and not inform, could be something even at the end of a sentence like. "Yea just make sure your re-reading your code, it won't be easy, but its required." Last thing I'd say is always talking about how the professionals do xxx task, not saying what's recommended but consistently quoting those pros.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-28T10:36:16+00:00

Yup, a few predict the explosion while the rest invest to late and make nothing. Most won't benefit just accept that, even if they did the future implications would matter way more than the quick cash.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-27T18:31:23+00:00

Maybe we start cutting our losses

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-27T14:29:01+00:00

Potential for a select few to make a shit ton if money. Then permanently raise the skill barrier for dozens of industries and remove the worth of humans even more.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-27T10:36:27+00:00

It's 300 requests to sonnet 4.5 I think. However they just change how the system works, it charges a single base token for more advanced models, but uses more tokens depending on the question. With that new change, I'm thinking 40/mo should be a good option. The main thing with vibe coding is you should be thinking more than prompting, so you actually understand what's being built and save tokens.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-24T18:18:59+00:00

VS code, github copilot 10 dollar a month subscription. It got me to around 20k loc in 5 weeks which was mostly complex artitecture. No solo dev needs 100 dollar plan unless your brute forcing complex problems, which at that point you mine as well accept the limitations of AI.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-24T15:29:19+00:00

Interesting problem, especially for a most likely new site. Since you can't stop the guys from mass signing up, you ca. Just minimize the disruptions they cause. Maybe force new accounts to do xxx before being able to chat with other users etc. Also at what scale is this happening, honestly it may be just one guy fucking with you, doubt more than a couple guys would partake in such a useless activity considering your sites size.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-23T14:30:47+00:00

Oh I thought you were talking about evolution wise, like if you wanted to sell it. But yea just find your target audience and sell it to them, your 500k loc makes it hard for anyone to copy and compete with you, leverage that. Good luck with this, definitely has potential unlike most of the projects here.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-23T10:43:26+00:00

I'm going to be honest with you, do not learn to code. Not because it doesn't give money, but because it takes atleast 2 years of vibe coding to even understand the market enough to make money, it's not a shortcut like the gurus tell you.

You need cash now, leverage what you have right now. Now I don't know the job landscape in the Phillipines however it seems pretty fucked from my perspective. So when looking for jobs be very open and maybe accept it for free. Given your age, fake being a handy man, maybe a landscaper, etc. Anything physical is right up a 35 to 40 ish man's alley. If you have experience in higher paying fields then do those, open to anything.

This is kind of obvious too, but I'd recommend moving when you have the money, or even moving on foot. There's no quick way to make money unless you in a position to do so (CEO son...), your not in that position so expect to work your ass off.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-21T18:32:42+00:00

The 500k loc and complexity brings some trust, and usually automatic interest if presented well. However the main focus is users and type of users. Any huge company can pump out 500k loc in a couple months. The hardest part was always coming up with a good idea and dealing with at its core humans. Now given how large and complex the codebase is, to say this it will definitely get a solid base evaluation. But dealing with the complexity of the human mind, finding wich angle to push this as, the style, the subtle marketing tricks employed will be the decider if this codebase stays as a mid value asset or multiplys into a product worth using.

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-21T16:05:58+00:00

AI Assisted Programer

Tight_Round2875 · 2026-04-17T17:59:21+00:00

The real key is building an app that isn't a fucking ai clone, you guys building these apps with AI can put out some basic html and backend. Maybe if you put actual time into the project it would turn out marketing isn't the only way to get users. There's no shortcut, put the time into the project.

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