My one-evening vibe coding experiment with building a personal rag system ended up lasting three weekends, costing $60, and working MUCH worse than ripgrep. I

My one-evening vibe coding experiment with building a personal rag system ended up lasting three weekends, costing $60, and working MUCH worse than ripgrep. I find AI very helpful for some programming problems and GH Copilot can be very useful sometimes (especially, when it is not overeager), but this vibe coding business is beyond me. (I only used OpenHands and Trea in Docker. I haven't tried more premium products due to budget constraints. In hindsight, maybe I should have.)