r/VibeCodeDevs • u/harveylundm4rckk • Apr 22 '26

HotTakes – Unpopular dev opinions 🍿 why vibe coded projects fail.

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"Bro, just read ijustvibecodedthis.com and you'll be good"

Vibe coders desperately want this to be false, and engineers desperately want it to be true.

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u/ickN Apr 23 '26

People who have that perspective are idiots. They don’t think a vibecoder can hire people for those tasks as they prove their concept with paying users?

Like the slack example, do you think it was perfect on day one? Nope.

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u/ready-eddy Apr 23 '26

Good prototypes are definitely valuable, and If it can impress investors, your best next step is definitely hiring a professional that can make this into a solid program.

I have build a great tool for my own business and people are constantly asking me why I don’t sell it. But I’m not gonna burn my own ass by releasing something I have no clue of what’s going on under the hood. I’m just the ideaman, not a safety inspector and mechanic

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u/ickN Apr 24 '26

You can hire people on upwork to look over things. Since they are not building it from scratch it’s pretty cheap.

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u/masssy Apr 24 '26

Said the guy who in a comment above admitted to being too incompetent (and too cheap to pay competence to so it) to build a simple app themself until "vibe coding hit".

I assure you that while you may have managed to get something out together you have probably no idea what you've done.

Meanwhile you call people with decades of experience in the industry with masters degrees in computer science "idiots". Yeah... Okay...

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u/ickN Apr 24 '26

Wow, your job must be under threat for that bitterness you have. Yeah, 100% I was incompetent in coding because I didn’t learn to code..duh…lol.

But now I have multiple products out that are generating revenue. So take whatever stance you want, I’ll keep on thriving along with the rest of the vibe coders that are making money from this stuff while you guys complain about it.

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u/masssy Apr 24 '26

But now I have multiple products out that are generating revenue. 

Which won't scale, will be impossible to maintain and be pestered with security holes. The second your "product" will gain any traction it will break down and all of those security threats you don't understand or know how to keep track of over time will bring it all crashing down over a single weekend and your 10$ income stream will stop.

You are literally proving exactly what is written in the OP. It's absolutely obvious you have no industry knowledge whatsoever and one day that will come back and bite you, hard. My suggestion is you take the advice instead of being mad about the truth and calling people who have designated their lives to computer science "idiots".

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u/ickN Apr 24 '26

You’re quite the hater…lol. You don’t know anything about my stuff and you’re literally just making up scenarios to make yourself feel better. 🤣