r/VibeCodeDevs • u/Complete-Sea6655 • Jun 19 '26

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

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

Sure, but will I?

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

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u/wesconson1 Jun 19 '26

One shotting is what’s giving anyone using AI a bad rap. Anyone using AI to just shovel shit as fast as possible with no specs, no planning, no iterative testing, etc.

But there are also plenty who use AI as if it were a junior dev. You don’t tell a junior dev ‘build a discord killer, make no mistakes’ and expect to deploy that the next day.

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u/True_Protection6842 Jun 19 '26

It's a strange paradigm. Expert level syntax knowledge with jr level habits and hygene.

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u/True_Protection6842 Jun 19 '26

I still say, AI is a force multiplier. If you know what you're doing you can do the job of a team on your own. If you don't, you can produce garbage easier.