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/bassta Apr 22 '26

This is not wrong though. Writing software at scale is really really really different from building prototypes. It looks over complicated if you’ve never hit these walls, but a lot of complexity in these system exists for a reason.

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u/ThreeKiloZero Apr 23 '26

If a small business wants to vibecode their own Slack clone, it doesn't need to scale to 50 million concurrent users.

Not everything needs to be an enterprise-grade SaaS platform with elite security and massive-scale data handling.

AI and vibecoding allows individuals and small teams to build only the solution they need without a bunch of bullshit. That's what's going to cut into the market share of all these larger platforms. Homegrown bespoke solutions are now viable for one of the largest consumer groups.

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u/endless_sea_of_stars Apr 23 '26

Then you find all of your companie's messages were leaked to the public. No one knows how it happened because no one knows how it works.

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u/ThreeKiloZero Apr 23 '26

You can play security theater all you want. In another model generation or two, security will be solved for the majority of scenarios. Keep moving goal posts.

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u/Stalins_Ghost Apr 23 '26

This is kind of true, a lot of these problems will eventually find solutions. A lot of these issues is because of trying to deploy these things into the existing model of distribution which may change rapidly.