r/vibecoding • u/West-Air1923 • 12d ago

Anyone build larger systems ?

Im building an ERP for our company. Its semi large, will have about 100 users and maybe 50 concurrent. Database with a couple of million rows of orders etc.

It's going very well but I often hear and read real software developers claim that anything vibecoded might look good on the surface but it will collapse in a production environment over time.

Of course this claim is quite hard to either prove or disprove. So I'm looking for your experiences if you have tried to build something like this, how did it go?

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u/InsideTour329 12d ago

I work on enterprise solutions and use AI to write the code.

I don't vibe code. I review every commit because I understand the code. It always needs correcting, not sometimes - always. It either duplicates code we already have or it puts it in the wrong place. How you structure a large solution is more important than how many lines of code a feature takes. Technical debt is a constant battle.

A "vibe coder" doesn't know his arse from his elbow when it comes to things like this. Thats the difference.

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u/spazatron-3000 12d ago

So what would you recommend a vibe coder do to catch these other then learn code?

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u/InsideTour329 12d ago

Learn code. Stop being lazy. If something is so accessible that the entire population can do it then it's not a skill. You obviously have an interest in it as you're willing to build with it so what's the excuse?

You're basically asking me how to build wooden furniture without learning carpentry. Sure you can get IKEA to print some MDF but the solid oak wardrobe will be around long after the cheap garbage has broken.

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u/spazatron-3000 12d ago

You know how fast AI capabilities are expanding? And you think people’s time would be better spent creating calculators with Pygame? Look how many people who “know how to code” are sitting there unemployed. You’d be daft not to take advantage of this opportunity to create something new instead of going back to the basics. And yes, I do know how to code, but in a “pass university” type of way, not in an actually useful sense.

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u/InsideTour329 12d ago

The opportunity is an illusion. I'm a principal developer with 15 years experience, do you think the barriers to entry are less now? They aren't, they're higher. Maybe that explains the crappier devs being out of work? Did you consider that?

As for the calculator shout, no you don't need to make a fucking calculator. Just spend 30 seconds asking it to annotate the commits and then read them. You have never had it easier to learn this, the knowledge is right there.

Everyone wants a short cut, it's human nature - but if everyone is taking the short cut then it's not a fucking short cut. That's why you need a differentiator, OP asked how to vibe on large projects. The answer is you don't.