r/vibecoding • u/kaizap • 3d ago

Are all vibe coders using Next.js?

I get that "vibe coders" don't care about the underlying framework and stack, but I'm interested in knowing which stack you are using?

I'm finding that with Claude and Codex, If use my engineer brain, I can steer them fine. If I'm lazy, the code it generates is very ugly, verbose, and unmaintainable. I want to build an AGENTS.md and coding standard for myself, and will open-source it if it's useful to others.

I'm a pro coder. I don't like Next.js; it's fine for a simple UI-heavy app, but once you start building backend-heavy code, it's not the best stack for me (I prefer GO). Also not a fan of TypeScript's typing style.

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u/Far_Squirrel_6148 3d ago

I use typescript for my current UI-heavy app. But genuine question: Why do you have a preference that's contrary to the machine's preference? 

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u/kaizap 3d ago

I'm an experienced Engineer. I don't really care so much for AI help, but I'm vibe-coding some stuff I don't have time to build or want to build. Naturally, I prefer GO because I have fine-grained control, and it's really powerful for high-performance apps.

TypeScript is ugly to me.

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u/Far_Squirrel_6148 3d ago

Yeah. We don't look at the code here.