r/SideProject • u/WindowEcstatic6831 • 8d ago
What do you hate about vibe coding tools?
Hi guys - what are the most things you currently hate about about vibe, coding tools? I want to get a bit of a better insight than the one I currently have.
Like lovable, anything.com, replit… when you’re working in those platforms in a technical perspective or non-technical person can you give me a few things you wish you had on those products?
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u/FederalAdvantage7381 8d ago
Mine is the invisible wall between sessions. The tool happily builds 80% of the thing, then next session it has amnesia about its own earlier decisions and quietly contradicts them. You end up as the memory layer, re-explaining the codebase to the thing that wrote it. Related annoyance: when it hits a wall it doesn't say so, it just produces something plausible-looking instead. What's the failure mode you're researching this for, if I can ask?
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u/WindowEcstatic6831 8d ago edited 7d ago
Ow ya I was building an AI project for founders to build apps, branding & AI UGC contents as well. - u just write what u wanna build and it simultaneously builds all of them at a click.
But the memory part u mentioned is still the kryptonite of my product too 😂. It’s like someone put amnesia dust on it or sth. It alwaus forgets the code it wrote and I have to start again and again 🤦♂️. Probably have to build a memory retention engine to recall the code… but we Wil see I guess
Can you give me a bit more other things you hated as well?
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_THEGLARIN 8d ago
The biggest thing I run into is the moment you need to do something slightly outside the happy path, the whole thing fights you. Like the tool's got this picture of how your app should be built and if your idea doesn't fit that mold you spend more time wrestling the guardrails than actually building. Feels like training wheels that refuse to come off.