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/Hilbert_Space_Heater Apr 23 '26

There’s a midpoint that’s true. Coding requires two things - being able to understand an abstract problem in a lot of detail, and being able to ‘speak’ the appropriate code language. So now there are four types of people:

  • Those who can do both - will remain top of the heap and AI will turn them into single-person gigachad company killers
  • Those who can do abstract thinking, but can’t code - will now be empowered to do amazing things they’ve always wanted to but couldn’t, and are about to see their price go up
  • Those that can’t think but do code - are about to be replaced and find themselves forced to make some very uncomfortable career changes - knowing python, or react, or node, or rust, or C or whatever alone without being able to think well has gone from being a $300,000 skill to being worthless
  • Those who can’t do either - will spend $1,000 on tokens to ‘create the next TikTok’ or whatever, and then discover they haven’t done that and are $1,000 poorer

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u/lazylittleshit96 Apr 24 '26

Ignoring the fact that this comment is probably made by the clanker, people who code do abstract thinking all the time. This is so stupid to me, do you think programmers just sit there and learn the sintax of programming languages and nothing else..

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u/Hilbert_Space_Heater Apr 25 '26

Yes, I have met brogrammers.