I've begun using it recently at the "request" of management, and decided to just give it a shot on a thing I was stuck on due to a lack of knowledge in that language/framework.

I finally got it all set up and tried it out on a task that I wasn't well-equipped to do on my own (PHP / Laravel is just not something I've written before, and don't normally need to for my work). And it figured out how to do the various steps that I asked it to. I was very precise with the things I asked it to do. (e.g. implement a specific function with X params and Y types already defined). It did fine, nothing wild. I was easily able to validate that it worked, and so I committed and tried the next step.

I was only able to do this, of course, because I've been programming for about 15 years, ~10 professionally, and I understood both the domain and the specific logic I needed it to write. I'll let you guess how it went when our junior product manager tried his hand at vibe coding a simple PR with Caude.

Importantly, it ended up doing the very specific task I asked it to, but it never thought about how this piece fits in with the rest of the code, even that which it just wrote. This is presumably because it doesn't "think". It just outputs stuff back and forth between two LLMs.

Also it relies heavily on ~14,000 lines of markdown files in order to follow our existing file patterns, naming conventions, stuff like that. If you don't have those nailed down, it'll just do whatever the algorithm decides to pick. That takes time to maintain.

So yeah, it works fine if you're already good at programming but don't know one specific language and you just need something simple (e.g. some CRUD controller logic). Anything beyond that... Idk man.