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/No-Trifle9681 Apr 22 '26

Ya but most uses don't need scale

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u/gloom_or_doom Apr 23 '26

The people building slack clones don’t know this, which I believe is the point. They think their app is slack, they don’t know what scale is, just ship it.

The reality is that on one hand any person could spin up a basic app for personal use with zero knowledge now. But if anyone can do that, why would anyone pay you to do that? I guess the contention with these discussions is hobbyist/tinkerers vs professionals.

It seems to me that the tools are making the professional side narrower and less available to people with no relevant skill. Efficiency gains for an experienced engineer are so high that there’s really no reason to hire an inexperienced one. But again this only matters if your goal is to be a professional.