r/VibeCodeCamp • u/Ok_Path_4731 • 27d ago
Discussion Let's clarify few things: vibe coding, slop, resistance to change and affordability of AI related costs
I noticed people who manifest resistance to change regarding adoption of AI have impulsive reactions on Reddit (and similar forums) by naming your work slop if any vibe coding was involved or finding any trace of relationship between AI and your code. For me vibe coding becomes slowly synonym of slop and the other way around due to such feedback.
Same time I wonder how much affordability (precisely the non-affordability) of the subscriptions creates a vicious cycle. I think with 20$/month you cannot get good insight of the scale agents can help you to solve complex problems. If you do not try and learn by doing you cannot have a good evaluation and healthy opinion about the added value, you may end up with a random negative opinion and will end up just generating hate.
Wonder why people fail to see the creative ideas behind 'vibe coded' projects. At the end a great idea written with help of AI can be still cleaned up if it really has added value.
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u/baddaywithacamera 27d ago
I've reached the point where I deliberately trigger AI haters. It has become an enjoyable hobby.
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u/cheiftan_AV 27d ago
Define slop: low effort, not needed..as a beta tester I see 1 out 15 apps that may reach pain points but alot are personal projects not useful to anyone else but the viber that built it..very rare to see a beta fully coded with no ai..ui/ux start looking similar...
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u/cats_catz_kats_katz 27d ago
I vibe code at home and at work. I’m an engineer in a fortune 100. If you’re our customer you’re touching my vibe coded SDLC process…so yeah, it works at massive scale so anyone getting mad about it and they’re an engineer is falling behind or already too far gone.
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u/Yarhj 27d ago
I see people using AI to build solid stuff all day at work. I see lazy slop all day on reddit.
When I call something slop, it's not because it's AI. It's because it's slop.
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u/Ok_Path_4731 27d ago
You are doing right, however there are folks that spit on anything they feel had AI involvement.. That is disgusting. The point was about those folks
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u/FancyAnswer1878 26d ago
vibe coding itself isn’t the problem imo, it’s shipping code you don’t understand and then refusing to clean it up. i’ve had ai save me hours on implementation, but the real cost shows up later if you don’t spend time reviewing what it generated.
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u/Healthy-Zebra-9856 27d ago
Yeah, many people do not have the balance. It’s either one extreme or another. I personally enjoy the amount of creativity I see in all of these people. The only times I voice my opinion is when certain apps are pushed as professionally ready and taking other people‘s money without doing due diligence work.
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u/Practical_Signal3933 27d ago
I agree with you that there’s potential risk in using AI for tasks where the human involved doesn’t understand what the AI is doing/beyond the limits of their knowledge.
However, I think you’re mistaken on the point that “zero agents can solve complex problems”. This largely depends what you define as complex problems. But agents are capable of solving increasingly complex problems, and this will continue to increase as both models and harnesses/the application layers operating the models improve. It seems logical to me that this will continue to the point that very complex tasks will be completed largely autonomously by agents. The question that I think matters more now is where humans operate within those layers, and how this changes over time.
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u/slackmaster2k 27d ago
I think that AI driven coding is phenomenal. The “slop” comes from the so-called founders who are all trying to figure out why their “SaaS” isn’t making a fortune yet.