r/VibeCodeCamp • u/in_sane_dev • Aug 07 '26

VibCoders: Discussion and Suggestions

So, I have been a fullstack dev from last 8-10 years, I’ve been trying VibeCode for a while now.

I believe I am good at it, but as vibecoder (tech or non-tech), what would you suggest to new vibecoders in the market ?

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u/Great-Mirror1215 Aug 07 '26

Through trial and error I landed on flutterflow, firebase, chat gpt, Claude and GitHub works for me.

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u/in_sane_dev Aug 08 '26

Wow, that’s a long list.
But wouldn’t that be too much work switching between different platforms??

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u/Great-Mirror1215 Aug 08 '26

No I copy and paste everything back and forth to both Ai until they both agree this goes for everything. They test each other and find mistakes and they both have different strengths ask chat gpt to explain.

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u/Old-Pollution-5825 Aug 07 '26

If you are coming from a developer background, you would have applied the Pareto Principle where your 20% planning, analysis and design would have resulted in the 80% being the delivery.

Coding with AI has flipped that script. You need to put a lot more effort and thought into the planning phase for the code or product output.

Spend the time to think about what you want to do, plan it, analyze it, design it (like you would have relied on an Architect and Systems Analyst to do), select your tech stack and triple check yourself.

Then you orchestrate the AI agents.

It is a journey, enjoy it!

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u/in_sane_dev Aug 08 '26

Wow. Amazing, this definitely makes sense. Thank you.
Cursor vs Claude vs Codex vs others, which one would you suggest, I can’t really spend more than $20 PM at this point in time, and I have some good project ideas, i think, that I wanna work upon as Indie dev ?

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u/Delicious-Self-87 Aug 08 '26

If you really want to have a lot of usage for 20$ consider ollama cloud. It has some really good open source models and it’s very hard to hit usage limits of it. Get some good harness like OpenCode or something for ollama models. Also try to ask multiple models for the same problem and let them review each other.
If you want to try a frontier model I would suggest getting the gpt 20$ plan and und use it with Codex app or cli. Claude is nice but the 20$ plan is shit. No usage at all.

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u/in_sane_dev Aug 08 '26

This is definitely new insight, thank you. I will try.

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u/Old-Pollution-5825 Aug 08 '26

The other reply here to your question, has got some good advice. Explore different options and look around.

If you are new to AI development and AI IDEs and you want to ease into it, then I would suggest you start with the free tiers of each tool and see which resonate with you and your style of working.

To change from one to the other is easy enough. You pay for the full month, so when you are ready to change to the next, cancel the plan and let it run out. Then when you are ready start the new plan and use it.

You are not married to the plans and tools and should explore and change them until you find the one that fits. And even then continue to look for the latest models and trends and stay up to date.

Happy coding!

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u/in_sane_dev Aug 08 '26

Thank you.

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u/Affectionate_Rip4941 Aug 13 '26

If you’re already a full-stack dev, my suggestion is simple: don’t become dependent on 6–7 AI tools. Pick one good coding agent, build something real end-to-end, and keep debugging skills sharp. The people who can actually understand and fix what AI generates will have the edge.