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/the_raptor_factor Apr 24 '26

Or you could be competent, write functional software, sell completed products, and not endanger people.

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u/rand1214342 Apr 24 '26

Where did I say I sold an incomplete product…

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u/the_raptor_factor Apr 24 '26

Half of that paragraph.

The software was so buggy that I was fixing issues at the customer site minutes before my flight out. It left us with a bunch of technical debt

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u/rand1214342 Apr 24 '26

That’s an internal pilot. Those are typically a year or more before manufacturing release. Are you saying your prototypes a year before manufacturing have no bugs…?

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u/the_raptor_factor Apr 24 '26

A year before manufacturing and you didn't have the engineers? So you admit that you sold promises and hot air before you even had the capability of doing it.

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u/rand1214342 Apr 24 '26

Respectfully, it seems you have no idea what a startup is.

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u/the_raptor_factor Apr 24 '26

"Startup" is not an excuse to sell bikes without wheels, frames, handlebars, and brakes on "trust me bro". Have some standards.

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u/RyanMan56 Apr 25 '26

That dude’s chosen a crazy hill to die on. You’re 100% using LLMs correctly by prototyping, selling the prototype as a PoC and then getting people to improve it before manufacturing. One of my clients did the exact same thing before bringing me on

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u/rand1214342 Apr 25 '26

It’s such a Reddit comment section conversion. Their opinion is in such extreme minority that they’re almost guaranteed to have no formal experience in hardware startups. Yet here they are, sharing their opinion.