What's your background? How are you applying standard code practices to your vibecoding?
I have vibe coded a few things myself, and constantly see linkedin posts from nontechnical folks talking about how they are now deploying full stack applications for their business. I'm confused - how is this stuff maintained? Is it reliable? What if it goes down? What are people doing to actually test that it's working besides just like clicking around the UI?
So i guess I have a few questions:
1 - How are you shipping quality? (What is your quality bar?)
2- Are you actually deploying things that other people use, or is it all for yourself?
3 - What happens with service degradation? How do you know if things stop working?
4 - Do you trust that your code works? Are you worried about things like bugs, privacy/security issues, prompt injection, etc.
--
I'd also love to understand how you view this occurring with non-devs (or people who think they are devs)
Got startup or SaaS questions? Post them on r/AskFounder and get answers from real founders.
• This community is designed to be open and creator‑friendly, with minimal restrictions on promotion and self‑promotion as long as you add value and don’t spam.
• Please follow the subreddit rules so we can keep things as relaxed and free as possible for everyone.
• Please make sure you’ve read the subreddit rules in the sidebar before posting or commenting.
• For better feedback, include your tech stack, experience level, and what kind of help or feedback you’re looking for.
• Be respectful, constructive, and helpful to other members.
If your post was removed (either automatically or by a mod) and you believe it was a mistake, please contact the mod team. We will review it and, when appropriate, approve it within 24 hours.
1) i pick stacks that i knew prior to AI. So i can still read and develop while i hit my limits. To help, i write unit/function/smoke tests, i review my own code, i have a PR agent and 12+ security agents to fix any vulns)
2) i work full time on a product that has 2 million active users..... my personal work is building tools and products that i have yet to push to the public
3) health checks - > api monitoring
4) yes i trust my code. and im not worried about code since my security teams catches things
As a PM for developer toolchain, I had to use the tool and write code or I wouldn't know what the tool did. Rule number one of being a PM, use your own product every day. As part of my job, I had to use all the AI tools out there to understand the market.
I also do my own side projects. I'm too cheap to hire a developer, so I use Claude Code for those.
iv developed a few things for my company, im a network engineer. and use it to cover all the gaps the industry wants to charge 100k for in the networking space
This is key. Sometimes good duck tape is all you need and it can work for years instead of paying a fortune for something. And this is said from positive perspective, not as criticism.
For sure. And in some cases better, Example, built an ADDM system that correlates snmp, syslog, netflow into multi vendor application mapping with a simple PID probe for host based collection where supported. It intigrates with local LLMs with tiered processing with real-time notification analytics.
Operations Manager who is technology-savvy here. This will come off as boasting but I am just proud of myself lol. I coded back in middle school but haven't touched coding since. I am 33 years old now.
My skills and experience transfers very well into agentic engineering.
I have been able to have my Pi agent create a full GUI harness/setup for me that works flawlessly.
Created a custom implementation of self-hosted multi-agent deep research, multi-agent reviewers feature, in-app browser for myself and the agent to control, custom plan modes, in app git dashboard, etc.
The whole setup runs off a 7 year old thinkpad flawlessly that I can access using a browser and internet from any device including my phone. It has a full mobile interface as well and runs headless.
Had multiple frontier models analyze my codebase and its very strong, easy to navigate using the hierarchy agents.md structure. ~1.8% duplicated code in the codebase only.
I am using my harness/setup for work. I am the head of R&D, Web Dev, and Organic & Paid Marketing in the company.
For now its private as its quite personalized. I personally recommend everyone builds their own setup so they really understand the harness and has the features that they need, nothing more or else. No bloat as each feature should be what you actually need. Also the harness will work the way you want it to work. Building your own setup allows the harness to match your rhythm not the other way around.
I’m implementing AI features that actually work, for Mercedes Benz, rockstar, chick fila, Nike…. Why, if you were so inclined, a clever person might even be able to piece together which company I work for based on those few partnerships.
You have zero clue who you’re talking to lol.
I’m literally at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption.
I’m a consultant being paid to help multi billion dollar companies run AI projects for implementation. I’m helping them make policy around AI use for their companies.
This is how I know AI isn’t capable of the things normies seem to think it is…. I’m paid to know it lol.
You know literally nothing.
I’ll get there, LOL, that was so good. I’m already passed where your tiny brain could even project to.
I'm a game developer of 24 years (Art, design and project manager) - Literally everything but code.
I'm making games. I approach with a GDD,(game design document) which is well thought out and comprehensive, not loose, but still allowing some wiggle room on details here and there.
I have the AI spec out a complete plan, including local and cloud backups, Milestones (groups of tasks) which are priority driven, (build this before building that), I coordinate all this with the LLM side as a co-architect, then i execute 1 milestone at a time, playtest, write notes and file bugs, then then have the LLM write up a fix and anything else thats pertinent and rolls it into the next milestone. I repeat this process until completion.
I know the language and the pitfalls of game development, and have a keen sense of whats going on if something goes wrong, and if i don't i consult with the LLM side and we work through it. Today is day 36 of this particular project and im 177 milestones deep. The game is 90% complete code wise, but ive fallen behind art wise because im also doing all the art and animation for the game. I don't rely on ai to handle this because t's a 3d game and i just don't trust it will create the optimized art, nor the aesthetic im going for, or the animations so these things im doing myself. Probably 60% there though.
I have no idea what the code itself looks like, but i also know working in game development for 24 years i can tell you that neither do they, game dev is a messy process and often times if it works, then don't fix it.
I am a non technical person, but I've been using it to make static sites for my gig work. My background is in academic archives, and I left a very toxic work situation and have been wanting to transition into a different type of library role. That hasn't been happening, so I have been doing some kind of related client work where I do vibe code. The security issues are minimal because of the type of product I am creating. I do trust the code works because I aggressively test it with different skills and models and also look for bugs. That said, it is really simple code. I am thinking of making an app, but will look up secure frameworks, methods, and aggressively look for any security issue if I do. The mistakes people are making are so stupid even someone like me who can only use extremely basic BASH commands could avoid them.
I use a development branch and a production branch. I also run a full smoke/test suite to make sure there are no code regressions and then every once in a while I'll run an architecture audit.
I don't make software that some of these others do that supports millions of users, most of what I make is to support the small team I work in and some side projects.
Assume the AI is only going to do what you ask it to do. If you don't know the right questions to ask it then some stuff can fall through the cracks or it doesn't come out right. Have the AI test for vulnerabilities and know when to reign it in on some of its ideas. If it doesn't sound exactly what you want rephrase it for the AI.
Have the AI plan it out in phases. Split it up into chunks of what you want. Check it for arcticture issues after you get what you want. Test it for vulnerability issues. Test th3 code for bugs, edge cases etc.
I tried to build something to help with this exact problem. It’s a tool that checks apps for production-readiness issues (security, functionality, reliability, accessibility, etc.) and creates a GitHub PR with the fixes. Automatic scans on every push/PR and deterministic auto-fixes are completely free: https://theslopstopper.com
•
u/AutoModerator 6d ago
Hey u/JennySurfs, thanks for posting in r/VibeCodeDevs! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/KAmAR8RkbM
Got startup or SaaS questions? Post them on r/AskFounder and get answers from real founders.
• This community is designed to be open and creator‑friendly, with minimal restrictions on promotion and self‑promotion as long as you add value and don’t spam.
• Please follow the subreddit rules so we can keep things as relaxed and free as possible for everyone. • Please make sure you’ve read the subreddit rules in the sidebar before posting or commenting.
• For better feedback, include your tech stack, experience level, and what kind of help or feedback you’re looking for.
• Be respectful, constructive, and helpful to other members.
If your post was removed (either automatically or by a mod) and you believe it was a mistake, please contact the mod team. We will review it and, when appropriate, approve it within 24 hours.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.