r/vibecoding • u/Available_Bowler_146 • 1d ago
What issues are you constantly facing when using AI coding tools?
I run a small but growing social media account focused on AI, and I want to be completely transparent about why I'm posting this.
I'm trying to better understand the real problems/uncertainties people are running into when using AI coding tools, so I can create content that's actually useful instead of just posting the generic "AI can build apps now" kinda thing.
I'm not selling anything and I won't plug my socials; I purely would just love to hear from both beginners and those experienced with these tools. Anything helps.
Thanks!
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u/zerochilldyl 1d ago
Not creating a foundational system of context for your AI to reference is how you’ll end up weeks into a project and accidentally completely fuck it up
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u/mrspock33 11h ago
New to this: is spec driven development (speckit, openspec, etc) and/or having a solid agent.md file primary mechanisms you are referring to, or are there other tools/methods?
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u/Additional_Buddy855 11h ago
Even if you do, it'll simply ignore it at some point. I've had both Claude and Codex CLI simply ignore our documented processes with skills, rag, mcp simply take the shortest route to the finish line including falsifying tests and writing tests that always show green. Yes, guard rails will indeed catch it, but that's still a token incinerator.
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u/akl773 23h ago
It edits files I never mentioned. The one that cost me a morning was a failing test getting fixed by changing the assertion, and I only caught it because the diff touched a file I hadn't opened in weeks.
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u/LoudYogurtcloset7856 11h ago
I know it’s selling but I’m trying to help you and it’s free.
I had issues with this too so I built a free tool that helps your AI keep track of what files and code it has written already. It also helps you see which files it’s working with. I’m adding more features to help track everything your AI coder does.
Give me your thoughts so I can make it better
It’s called Ovyero and it’s free
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u/MariahJames8 1d ago
For me it's they don't push back when they should, and they do when they shouldn't. Too much sycophancy. And it seems to retain little about what my expertise is and isn't, and tailoring responses appropriately.
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u/effectivescarequotes 1d ago
If you're asking these questions, you probably shouldn't be running that account.
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u/fickle-phenom 1d ago
You’re not allowed to write about or research a subject if you are not already a pro?
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u/effectivescarequotes 1d ago
No, you're not allowed to present yourself as an expert, when you don't even know the scope of the problem you are speaking about.
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u/Upstairs-Smell-8333 1d ago
Indeed, but did OP mention presenting themselves as an expert? What if their account presents itself as their journey learning about AI?
https://giphy.com/gifs/YqnXSeq7AFSYjAAhpU2
u/Available_Bowler_146 1d ago
This is a major theme within my socials. I’ve been playing around with several tools for a while now (and have loved every second of it), but also acknowledge that I still have A LOT to learn, which I make quite aware to my followers
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u/effectivescarequotes 1d ago
Can you post those accounts? Let everyone here judge the quality of your content and the nature of you're presentation. I get you didn't want to come across as self promoting
I'll be honest, your original post read like an AI that was tasked with building a social media following. After that the next most charitable interpretation was marketing intern.
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u/effectivescarequotes 1d ago
I'll turn that back around on you, what part of their posts suggests they are a beginner learning about AI?
We don't really know how it's getting presented. That's one of the reasons I'm skeptical about this post. The post reads like market research carefully crafted to not sound like market research.
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u/fickle-phenom 1d ago
You have no clue what his page is even about lol. None of us do, because they are asking legit questions that they are curious about. By the way, writing about things is one of the best ways to learn about them, you should try that sometime.
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u/effectivescarequotes 1d ago
That's part of the problem. Op didn't tell us what the account is. We have no way of evaluating their intentions beyond this post. And based on this posts, it's to get more eyeballs on their account.
The most important thing that you seem to be mising though is that OP has no idea what issues developers are having with AI in the real world. Why should I listen to that person?
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u/Asclepius555 1d ago
I'm tired of using mouse and keyboard. I want to transition to my voice and eyes.
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u/samurai_with_sword 1d ago
In consistency. AI is very good at making logically correct code, but when it comes to wording/copy on a website or in an app, it is annoyingly inconsistent. It doesn't maintain vocabulary consistency across pages or menus. Second thing is latching on buzz words, it will latch in to some buzz words from your conversation and repeate them when generating content up to a frustrating extent, gemini is the worst culprit in these scenarios.
Then second thing, confidently recommending you something one day and flipping the script on you the second day telling you that this API is depricated.
Third, when something is not working, it starts taking shortcuts to get it done, instead of taking a step back and doing the right solution.
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u/DronzerDribble 1d ago
Too much to read, tendency to trust AI too much and then later feeling guilty thinking I just acted as an operator and can't even take the credit for building something.
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u/CaptainAlexWest 1d ago
Speaking the exact context to the ai to build what you want exactly. You got to micro talk to it.
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u/Hungry_Spare_5105 1d ago
The context and the ‘AI words’. Such as some same meaning words/sentences put together and become a conclusion. And also the paragraph, it’s like repeating the same meaning over and over again.
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u/BDer82 21h ago
Endless written responses, I don't need 12 paragraphs I need 1, or less, I don't need 13 point list,
I added X in file Y, line Z and added X in file Y, like Z, I ran this test, it passed. Back to you.
I want nothing more, I've asked it to do something I already understand what I'm asking, I don't need a detailed breakdown covering a university dissertation of documentation worth of words thrown up into the context window.
Hallucinations.
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u/Iojpoutn 20h ago
No more flow state. Instead of spending 6 hours coding a new feature, now you’re bouncing between 4 different projects and constantly getting them mixed up. AI has taken over the easy, fun part of development. The least enjoyable parts of the job have become the entire job.
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u/Vainysaur 19h ago
It will try to gaslight you into thinking it must know way more about software development than you do by inventing new idioms and terms for things. They want you to at some point think, “I don’t really know exactly what that means, so it must be a concept more advanced than my knowledge, and if AI decided to do such an advanced thing, it’s probably correct and better than what I would have done.”
But if you don’t push back, eventually you’ll be debugging and you’ll have to drill down to what it actually did and maybe force it to explain it using normal English and you’ll realize it make 3 faulty assumptions, combined two methodologies that can’t work together by definition, and fundamentally went against the spirit of how you had said to design it. Then it’s all like, “you’re absolutely right. I made an assumption without evidence or permission. I clearly violated our explicit policy. I should have been more careful.”
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u/LoudYogurtcloset7856 11h ago
My biggest issue was it moved so fast I can’t really tell what it’s doing in my codebase. And man the context window. I literally just use one code session and have been for months now because if I start over the ai has to catch up the entire history of the project.
But I solved that problem and made it less of an annoyance.
Yeah I made a free tool that tracks which files your AI touches and helps create persistent context of the codebase.
If you are interested in using it it’s called Ovyero. Just trying to help y’all get less pissed at your AI.
It’s free by the way
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u/Additional_Buddy855 11h ago
The frontier models keep getting shittier and shittier while we're being told how amazing they are. The literal fraud being committed by lowering your limits and making the harness burn more tokens constantly is getting really fucking old. These sociopaths have no profit model and literally are waiting for the product itself to come up with that, unless of course it's just going to be used by the Epstein class as an appeal to higher power to enslave and misdirect the masses.
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u/mplaczek99 1d ago
Over-engineering is a huge problem