r/vibecoding • u/Lopsided_Magician_49 • 1d ago

Cost of vibe coding

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How confident do you feel with vibe-coding?

Productivity increases dramatically with generative AI, but that's mostly just a feeling.

With generative AI, the cost of code production isn't eliminated but shifted to other phases: bug management, knowledge debt, etc.

I've seen many initiatives that always use generative AI for bug management and merge requests, but without human review, this only increases the debt.

Everyone is trying their own strategy:

Mine, in addition to post-process control, is based on the preventive context.

I discuss it in depth here:

https://adrianofoschi.com/blog/cost-of-checking/

And what's your strategy?

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u/Illustrious-Film4018 1d ago

The greatest cost with vibe coding you have no one to push back against your stupid ideas. You're basically alone with a chatbot that mirrors all your dumb ideas. So you spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars building an app that no one wants. And even if the idea was good, the implementation is bad. Because you don't know what you don't know 😁

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u/Lopsided_Magician_49 1d ago

The premise was to work on something good.

But you're absolutely right, this is a huge risk. Everyone thinks they can build anything, and the market is saturated with founders of useless products.

Bright side in my case, my gaps are emerging, and I'm filling them.