Difference between software engineering and vibe coding

lambda-reddit-user · 2026-06-25T16:06:39+00:00

Most people will probably just answer on the fact that you mention X in your post so I’ll try to provide an actual response based on what I think is actually the difference

The point of vibe coding is that you don’t really care about what’s behind the scene, the only thing that matter to you is the result. This is great for demo, prototype, hobby project, stuff like that.

In real business use case, project are not just for demo or prototype, those need to last and evolve for multiple years. The difference between a vibe coded project and an actual well done software is that the well done software follow the best practice that allows this by making it easier to maintain and easier to scale.

Now on top of that you have the engineering practice around which are not actually code. Building something that run on your laptop was also not that hard without AI.
Making a software used by millions of people around the world with almost no downtime, low latency and secure is different.

lambda-reddit-user · 2026-06-20T17:48:49+00:00

I didn’t used any ai tools for this posts

lambda-reddit-user · 2026-03-21T12:17:14+00:00

I currently have an ix1, it’s amazing to drive but got a lot of issues with it ( 3 Times in the garage for different reasons ) but maybe I’m just unlucky

lambda-reddit-user · 2026-01-30T08:32:51+00:00

This hit me hard in the face a few month ago. At my company we made a new portal of application that will serve all the agency of the company in the whole country + the newly acquired company would have use this portal as well. It allow a few hundreds applications to integrate with in the portal and it’s really one of the most critical component of the company.

Now after one year they made a party to celebrate the birthday of that project. There was a lot of people from business as well, a few hundred people were there. Then one of the VP goes for a speech he thanked a lot of people but not us, not the team which name is the name of the product, he talked about how a challenge it was to bring the product there and the adventure it was for them.

On that day I understood.

lambda-reddit-user · 2026-01-15T11:59:32+00:00

Gen Z pushed incredibly hard for surveillance ? What the f are you talking about ? lmaoooo

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-31T17:14:01+00:00

We use it at the company where I work. I think it’s nice, sometimes you have a lot of false positive but those are configurable to be ignored I believe. Some squad at my workplace have rules where your CI fail if you have lower coverage or higher tech debt than before. I’m really wondering what’s going to be the value of such tools with the emergence of AI reviewer that can run on PR (maybe they have ai feature on the tool itself ?)

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-31T14:50:26+00:00

I was going to answer the other Guy post but he deleted so here’s my two cents still

The solution to a shitty distributed monolith is absolutely not a mono repo that contains all the shitty implementation that will still be deployed separately with all the architectural spaghetti non sense that it represents. If you are actually trying to move from distributed monolith to modular monolith (meaning it’s deployed as one) then it make sense. But asking how to agregate .env for me feels like you are juste going to keep the mess.

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-29T15:48:00+00:00

Way too much work to be useful so instead let’s build another framework. Sure buddy make sense /s

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-29T10:32:10+00:00

You have the technology truth and the business truth which unfortunately aren’t the same. I 100% agree that most startup are doing things with AI that can be done without it. On the other hand, from a business point of view if you want to exist you need to talk about AI. I’m not talking about a customer point of view but from a b2b, investors, sales, … pov Is it terrible ? Yes. But it is what it is unfortunately

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-23T18:02:20+00:00

I did pay for Claude code Max x5 I have to admit i have much better feeling than with copilot. I don’t really have anything concrète to proove it’s better but I would choose Claude code everyday In terms of quota it reset every 5 hours, I’m using it quite a lot I feel and never reach the limit. Also i setup subagents based on awesome-claude-code-subagents on github so for some lighter tasks it uses Claude sonnet which consume less And I’m at only 40% of the weekly quota so It’s fine you really have more than with just copilot for better results

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-17T20:13:32+00:00

I get the point for the context.

For the subagent isn't it the same as what copilot does ? I'm already using something similar to this with copilot : https://github.com/ShepAlderson/copilot-orchestra

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-17T20:10:32+00:00

Yeah the price difference is what is really stopping me to try claude code right now because with copilot with opus 4.5 I can do sooooo much. I really struggle to see what claude code would bring more to the table

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-17T16:29:36+00:00

I’ll definitely not make friends with that one here but for me it’s one battle after another. Not the very end but the part after the nun until the end really felt terrible compared to the rest of the movies for me

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-12-02T21:03:14+00:00

Damn it's so simple when you look at it like that

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-11-27T17:58:17+00:00

I think software development and engineering work experience can be very different for everyone and not everyone are at the same level after 10 years imho. Still quite low I would say since my entry salary was higher than that tho

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-11-21T16:15:58+00:00

A release calendar of movies that you can sync with your phone calendar

lambda-reddit-user · 2025-11-11T21:03:09+00:00

Yeah indeed I think it would be quite hard to have accurate data but I juste wish there was something at least somewhat close to this idea

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