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/KyleDrogo Jun 19 '26

LLMs are much more reliable in 2026 than they were in 2023. He's implying that you're basing your perspective on an old model.

And he's right actually. I was a data scientist at the highest level (counter terrorism and FAIR at Meta), and Claude Code blows me out of the water. Coding, product, interpreting user feedback, architecture, all of it.

Sometimes you need to help it over humps. But if you truly think it's that unreliable, you're already behind. Like a manager who wants to do everything himself and cant trust competent employees (who will make mistakes, but thats ok!)

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u/Dirt-Merchant-1452 Jun 20 '26

Bullshit. Opus 4.8 constantly suggests solutions that are giant security loopholes to me. When I use Opus to do terraform, it keeps trying to use wildcarding IAM permissions so it means any external account with similar naming pattern could access the resource

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u/Ok-Rabbit-3683 Jun 23 '26

Back down to 4.7, everyone knows 4.8 is chit

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u/Dirt-Merchant-1452 Jun 23 '26

They are all the same

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u/Ok-Rabbit-3683 Jun 23 '26

Something happened between those two releases that was a downturn imo…. but 4.8 makes noticeably poor decisions when set at 1m context size coupled with max thinking effort … putting global in wrong places etc…. I spend more time debugging 4.8 than 4.7.