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All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme

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129 points Varun08 | 2 comments | 09 Sep 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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cramsession ◴[09 Sep 25 22:47 UTC] No.45190469[source]▶
The trick is that you have to be a good coder to get the most out of "vibe" coding. It works great for me, but I deploy all of the knowledge I've acquired over the decades as a professional developer. You need to know how to architect systems, what data structures and algorithms to ask for, how to design a product, many facets of graphic and user interface design, how to parcel out work, how to parallelize tasks. Even which ideas are worth pursuing is an intuition you build up over years. "Vibe" coding really is magic and I'm highly scaled, but I don't see how it could possibly work for all but the most senior developers. In some sense, it's like writing LISP macros on steroids.
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1. idopmstuff ◴[09 Sep 25 23:50 UTC] No.45191169[source]▶
It really depends what you're coding. I'm a former PM who can't code, and I'm currently using GPT-5 in Cursor to write an internal application for my business of acquiring and operating e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon. I'm really vibe coding (just clicking accept without ever reading any of the code changes), and it's working great! I've got a whole dashboard that's retrieving inventory and sales data from multiple Amazon stores, projecting future sales and reorder point, etc. The code might be total dogshit, but it's incredibly useful for me (and also really enjoyable).

That said I might be sort of a weird case, since I am accustomed to designing and documenting product requirements, the fact that it's just for me means architecture doesn't really matter, and I'm competent enough to help it resolve some design problems like the fact that it was obviously hitting the wrong Amazon API that was pulling a report of every single sale as a line item rather than just a report with total sales numbers, etc.

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2. simianwords ◴[10 Sep 25 06:23 UTC] No.45193984[source]▶
Vibe coding helps people “bring their own UI”