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I would guess that for every app that was vibe coded and made $80k in revenue, there are thousands of attempts that went off a cliff or into a wall, generating

by dimal 1y ago

I would guess that for every app that was vibe coded and made $80k in revenue, there are thousands of attempts that went off a cliff or into a wall, generating $0 revenue and wasting a human’s time. So it’s just survivorship bias. Sure, it’s possible to make something useful, but you will probably fail. I’m using AI to increase my productivity, but whenever I’ve vibe coded (not intentionally, just by getting caught up in the dumb vibes) I’ve regretted it. I’ve ended up with a tangled mess.

barbazoo 1y ago
Unless I spend a considerable amount of time writing a wall of text to do anything beyond simple tab completion I have yet to see it save me a significant amount of time. The 1 time it helped me come up with a complex solution gets overshadowed by 10 rabbit holes of hallucinated API usage that I now have to sort out, clean up, etc.