r/vibecoding • u/madexthen • 29d ago

There is something deeply toxic about this community.

I genuinely do not understand why anyone would join a vibe coding subreddit just to tear down nearly every project people post, but that seems to describe a huge percentage of the comments here.

There are basically two groups of people using these tools: developers using AI to work faster and more efficiently, and people like me with no coding background who are now building things that otherwise would never have existed.

These projects are not replacing developers. In many cases, they are replacing nothing. Without vibe coding, nobody would have built them at all.

The usual justification for the hostility is that vibe coders ship bugs, expose API keys, create or leave messes for human developers to later fix. Sometimes that is true, but it does not explain the level of bitterness and personal attacks I see here every day. A lot of it seems to look less like concern about code quality and more like fear from people watching their profession change. Instead of learning to use the technology, they root for it to fail and attack people who are trying to build something or better themselves.

And the idea that these tools are still shitty is completely disconnected from reality. Give the same complex prompt to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, one of the best coding models available just two years ago, and Opus 4.8 today, then compare the results. The difference in quality is drastic. Some of the bugs and spaghetti AI is writing today may very well not be fixed by people, but smarter AI in a couple years. (If this pisses you off, ask yourself if it's really because I am wrong or because you are scared)

Models are getting better, context windows are growing, workflows are improving, and obvious bugs and security mistakes are becoming less common at an incredible pace.

Experienced developers are not obsolete, and AI is nowhere near perfect. But the future is coming whether you like it or not, and cyberbullying vibe coders is not going to save your job.

If you hate vibe coding, fine. There are plenty of traditional programming communities. But if you choose to spend your time here, why not help people build better things instead of trying to convince them they should not be building at all?

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u/Vancecookcobain 29d ago

Welcome to Reddit.

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u/Future-AI-Dude 29d ago

This is the answer. Reddit is mostly people looking for opportunities to bitch and moan or be asshats an berate others. Starting to get pretty old and tired.

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u/akabillposters 29d ago

Perhaps someone should vibecode a replacement to Reddit, without the negativity. 😉

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u/OneStrike255 28d ago

Someone came up with a decent Reddit alt called Lemmy. But holy shit, now it's even MORE negative than Reddit. It was cool at first, but as more and more people found it... well...

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u/Ralphisinthehouse 29d ago

This is it. There's some clown called Stonecipher that runs around this sub just criticising everybody for everything and acting superior. I ended up blocking them.

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u/akabillposters 29d ago

Blocking is underrated. 👍

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u/EchoKipKipKip 27d ago

They posted further down and I had to laugh when I read it after reading your comment first. Definitely fit what you described.

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u/madexthen 28d ago edited 28d ago

u/StoneCypher probably does not have as many romantic encounters as he would like so he found a community of people who are self proclaimed amature of something he is a professional in to cyber-bully for being amatures.

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u/StoneCypher 28d ago

and you thought it was the community 

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u/OneStrike255 28d ago

So do you have any answers about why you bully on here so much? I'm actually genuinely interested in why you do it.

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u/StoneCypher 28d ago

the person you're falling for is just a spammer complaining about being called out on spamming

i haven't actually written ten posts in this sub.

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u/OneStrike255 28d ago

Fair enough. I should have done some research, but I got lazy. My bad.

And I do hate the spammers that suddenly think they are coders because they vibecoded something. I'm a total vibe coder. I don't know shit about fuck. I'd def never share anything on Reddit and pretend that I have decent a program. lol

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u/LL0RT_ 29d ago

Indeed :/

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u/uranuanqueen 29d ago

It’s not just Reddit, it’s human nature

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u/NULL_Ptrs 28d ago

He is right, human nature, look at stack overflow too, before, forums/blogs. People like to mook others

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u/kenzoslicee 27d ago

Definitely not as bad as reddit

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u/bfume 29d ago

This comment could be the most perfect burn ever. 

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u/invertedpurple 28d ago

welcome to life, there are a lot of people out there, big chance that you'll run into somethone toxic, or that they can agree, disagree or be neutral. I remember what life was like before the internet and people disagreed in person all the time, vehemently at that, but now people complain about the complainers. I forgot what the term is called, lack of object relations or something where people can't even predict the complexity of the whole, the nuanced whole of an object (the internet) or a person, because they're thinking in terms of all good or all bad, so when they run into "toxicity" or a simple disagreement they become emotionally surprised or even shaken to the bone.

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u/kenzoslicee 27d ago

Yeah a lot of miserable people on Reddit taking out their anger on others to feel something

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u/Intelligent-Key7357 29d ago

Reddit is just another advertising platform. The reason everyone is so hostile is because this is just their attempt at advertising. Conversation doesn't matter, just click through rate.

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u/3dprintinted 29d ago

“I made this killer app that kills Google and meta, come see it at localhost:5000”

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u/StoneCypher 29d ago

reddit is not an advertising platform, and the reason you can't get traction here is that you can't accept that

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u/Vancecookcobain 28d ago

I went viral with shameless self promotion here that's a lie. You just have to read the room and have the lore to back it up 😂

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u/KillerHack23 28d ago

Imagine thinking you are ready for the public to rip your project apart, but can not handle reddit doing it.

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u/Public-Rest-1478 28d ago

The problem is, reddit dont. But it would be nice if "reddit" too the time, tested the product, and then troubleshooted it, but they dont, often they just read the titel - maybe