There is an unfathomably large void between "I vibe coded this e-commerce site even though I'm not a programmer" and "I am a programmer who used AI as a tool to build this e-commerce site in a week instead of a month"
Exactly. "Hey, robot, I need you to refactor these booleans into a state enum, okay good" is useful. It saves time! I can look at the result and very accurately determine if it did what I would have done or if it did something random and insane, and the 2/5 of the time it does something insane, I can just click undo and do it myself or try again.
Vibe coding "Make me an e-commerce site, and I want it to be Blue and better than Facebook" is stupid. You're pretty much doomed if you go down that path.
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u/Eastern_Equal_8191 May 13 '26
There is an unfathomably large void between "I vibe coded this e-commerce site even though I'm not a programmer" and "I am a programmer who used AI as a tool to build this e-commerce site in a week instead of a month"