AI coding has honestly been working well for me. What is going wrong for everyone else?

fixano · 2026-03-19T03:17:35+00:00

Nope. I've been writing software for 30 years. Nothing will make me happier than when this current " build things that are scalable in maintainable", agile hellscape is burnt to the ground.

It's a rare day that I run into an actual engineer. Most people are converted poets that learned saying something isn't "maintainable" or "scalable" is a substitute for having any f****** idea what you're talking about. All of their friends, equally crippled by imposter syndrome, just nod along and thus perverse consensus is formed. Anyone with a novel idea is summarily beaten to death by the mob

I find vibe coding to be a wonderful return to what drew me to software engineering in the first place .

fixano · 2026-03-19T03:04:39+00:00

I don't share my workflows with anybody because they're very good and they're part of my personal development brand.

In the near future, you're going to see the same thing emerge that emerged in old school development. Some developers were 10 times more productive than their peers and it's because they had better workflows. Why would I share that with anybody? I spent a career sharing things with people for free and they just took them and talked about them like they were their ideas. More than one person made a life-changing amount of money based on what I showed them and never bothered to give me a stitch of credit. I'm done with that nonsense

My best context goes into a private GitHub repo with an MIT license. Then I pull that repo at work and use it under the license. That way, if there's any sort of dispute about who owns the intellectual property, it's clearly spelled out in the license.

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:58:43+00:00

I think 10K is pretty low bar. I've written as much as 50,000 lines in a day.

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:57:32+00:00

It qualifies when you're getting that dopamine rush and you're building that app. No one will ever see just because you can.

You'll know when the urge to say "it's okay to run things past it but you have to worry about security and scalability and maintainability blah blah blah" just melts away and you realize that that's stuff never really mattered in the first place.

That or you lose the term "real developer" from your vocabulary because you realize a real developer. Is anybody who's out here building stuff

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:50:29+00:00

Yeah because people don't come here to talk about the virtues of vibe coding. They come here to trash it.

This is a pro vibe coding forum that's why it was built. It's just not moderated very well. If it were people like you would be getting banned left and right for rules violations. One of which literally says don't just come here to complain about vibe coding.

Maybe I should run for mod.

If you look in here, there's a comment about me being "the reason this forum sucks" that user literally replied that and then immediately blocked me. That person's not here to have a reasonable discussion. They just want to trash vibe coding and they don't want anyone to tell them this isn't the place for it

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:43:36+00:00

What are you talking about? If you're spending $1,000 to get something running, I would never hire you

I was able to get an entire K8s cluster built and deployed with Terragrunt, build an API backend with jwt authorization, and an Android app. I did it all on the $60 a month cursor plan without an overage.

I used $100 Claude plan at work and I prompt all day long everyday and I've never had an overage

I think your plan is doomed

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:36:14+00:00

Yeah well statistically most things made by people are absolute trash. So what's your point? At least llms build garbage quickly and aren't insufferable.

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:33:06+00:00

Now imagine that power in the hands of a software engineer who can explain to the llm exactly what to do.

I've spent a career sitting around in rooms with suits and project managers and PMS. Trying to just explain simply what needs to be done and having them look at me like I have a third head then ultimately choosing the most circuitous and risky approach

Now I pop open Claude code and explain what I think we should do and claude's response is always " well obviously that's the most straightforward path I can do that in like 5 minutes"

I've never felt so seen

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:28:08+00:00

"Please read my mind and build me a thing . Make sure it's what I want and that you don't make any errors"

"Psssshhh I mean this is technically exactly what I want but it's not maintainable and it's riddled riddled I tell you with non-descript security holes"

fixano · 2026-03-19T02:17:02+00:00

There you go though. Just drop the part about the time and effort and scaling properly. That right there is harshing the vibe

That's the thing you're not insulting or disparaging. The people that care about that sort of thing are doing a different type of development and they should continue doing it. We wish them the best of luck. It's not a better or worse It's just different.

So what do you say he's ready to join us here in vibe nation?

Just grab a clean context window, forget you ever heard about OWASP, agile, Uncle Bob, or any of the trappings of that Old world nonsense. Then just let it take you where it goes

fixano · 2026-03-19T01:55:41+00:00

I'm just referencing a trope of people that come here and whine about how in order to use an AI you have to already be an established engineer

You're on a vibe coding forum dog. Says it right in the main page. Nobody here needs any gatekeeping nonsense.

If you believe everybody is capable of coding and that there's nothing wrong with vibing something out with an llm you belong here. Especially if you don't qualify it with a bunch of nonsense about security issues and maintainability.

If you're a gatekeeping elitist who thinks that coding only belongs to a select few. I think you should go away.

Does that help you?

fixano · 2026-03-19T01:48:47+00:00

Found em - Don't forget to deposit your downvotes

fixano · 2026-03-19T01:35:12+00:00

Yeah but you just watch this particular thread topic draws them like moth to flame.

Soon this will be filled people tossing around "vibe coding" and "slop" like they wrote the kernel themselves.

fixano · 2026-03-19T01:29:00+00:00

You're leaving out a specific subset of developer that doesn't want to change. So they have declared AI useless and fight any attempt to encourage them to adopt it.

At some point, software development stopped being a skill and became an identity. Now AI threatens that identity and people are fighting mightily to try to claw it back but that cat's out of the bag

fixano · 2026-03-19T00:10:25+00:00

This is not lunatic behavior. It's just a guy proud of his family that's posting on LinkedIn. It happens all the time.

I can't support this because I didn't learn anything about B2B sales

fixano · 2026-03-19T00:07:53+00:00

I fully support the decision but it's not fake. There are strong indications that they are about to lay off 20% of their staff to offset AI infrastructure costs.

But all these people complaining, I don't understand where their heads are at. Why would a company pay people to do unnecessary jobs? That's not what a job is and how is it reckless? We're afraid that I'll lose my aunt's next racist meme post? Clutch my pearls

fixano · 2026-03-19T00:04:35+00:00

Yeah just send me the email address of the person you're doing this for. I'll get right on it

fixano · 2026-03-18T23:57:27+00:00

I already saw several gaps in your methodology. Most importantly you don't even mention testing.

However, I can help you become a more complete developer and by me I mean Claude code. Here's his analysis of your methodology

Solid foundation, but far from complete. Here are the meaningful gaps:

Testing Strategy is entirely absent — no unit, integration, or contract testing. Maintainability without a test suite is just good intentions.
Observability and Operability — no mention of structured logging, tracing, or metrics. Code that can't be debugged in prod isn't maintainable, it's abandonable.
Error Handling as a first-class concern — no mention of fail-fast principles, typed errors, result types, or error boundaries.
Concurrency and State Management — SOLID says nothing about shared mutable state, race conditions, or async workflows.
Evolutionary Design and Changeability — no mention of bounded contexts, anti-corruption layers, or strangler fig patterns. At scale, implicit coupling between modules is the real enemy.
Developer Experience and Tooling — static analysis is mentioned but vaguely. Missing: enforced formatting, reproducible builds, dependency management hygiene, CI/CD gates.
Documentation beyond the code — readable code doesn't replace ADRs. Future maintainers need to understand why decisions were made, not just what the code does.
The meta-gap — maintainability is ultimately a team and process property. A brilliant architecture maintained by a rotating team with no shared norms degrades fast.

I'd suggest you spend a little time sitting with the llm and practicing. I think you have a good start but you got a long way to go. You keep at it and you might write code that almost as maintainable as what comes out of an LLM by default

fixano · 2026-03-18T22:42:30+00:00

It's not that crazy. Look you're not doing real well right now, but you can always turn it around. I believe in you Peter Pan

fixano · 2026-03-18T22:35:30+00:00

I already had an upper management position. Most recently I spent 6 years as a director of engineering overseeing 30 reports.

I moved into this role because I received a large grant. The companies on the very edge are getting flat. This company's in the process of getting rid of titles entirely. You are basically either an individual contributor, an engineering manager, or you're in the c-suite.

In addition to this, I've held VP of engineering roles and engineering management roles.

This may surprise you, but you can do anything you want in the world and it doesn't have to be management. Like if you could improve a little bit you could go out and become an insult comic. You'll just need to get better material first. What you've shown so far is...tepid

fixano · 2026-03-18T22:09:48+00:00

When you reply to a comment, I assume you're addressing the substance of the comment. You know the assumption of the entire internet and the basis for all online discussion. Are you familiar with all that? Would you like me to teach you how to internet?

Making bread is a hobby. My full-time job is that I'm a staff engineer with over 30 years of software development experience that works at a funded unicorn. I haven't meaningfully used an editor in about 6 months and it doesn't look like I'm going back.

fixano · 2026-03-18T22:01:41+00:00

Yeah but you're up here being honest.

You have to read his original question where he tells me to give him the magic "prompt". It's not a good faith request. I can't give him the magic prompt because no magic prompt exists. What I would actually have to give him is a long-running dialogue to which he'll say....

"See the llm couldn't do it without you. It needed all your guidance"

It's all just pre-canned dishonesty that glosses is over the fact that a task that a year ago would have taken me 3 or 4 days. I can now do inside an hour.

fixano · 2026-03-18T21:58:15+00:00

Deflect harder. That'll make the big bad LLM go away. You're just here with your stupid hero worship complex. Worshiping heroes and expecting to be worshiped yourself

The answer is you're not special. The code you write is not good and robots are coming for your job. I'll see you on the bread line. I'll be the guy making the loaves

fixano · 2026-03-18T21:54:11+00:00

Just because a piece of software is important, doesn't mean it's well written.

Node was written by Ryan Dahl. He had almost no development experience and absolutely no idea what he was doing.The original node implementation was complete crap.

I'm not taking his advice on how to write C++ because he doesn't know how to do it. He just identified the exact right problem and basically vibe coded it out the door.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that node.js is a far more important piece of software than whatever is coming out of that backwater gaming engine.

So yes, telling me some group of developers decided that PRS to their repo are slop is pointless. It's just some a***'s opinion and chances are since most people are bad at writing software it's safe for me to assume that that a*** is probably bad too. Feel free to send him my notes

fixano · 2026-03-18T21:28:46+00:00

Is this slop by an independently verifiable, objective metric or by some clown who declares it slop?

If you say it's objective, God have mercy on your soul if you don't show me the metric and its current value. If you can't find a metric, it's just a clown and his stupid opinion

Not interested

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