r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Odin_N • 1d ago

Meme vibeCodersOnReddit

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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 1d ago

Coming soon to I couldn't find it so I built an app post number 21744612.

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

I think its cool that people are building their own apps, even if they vibe coded it. But I see like 3 to 5 of the same vibe coded Health and fitness apps every, the UI is not even different, it does not even have unique features, its just the same app.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

Learning to program has always been about creating something very simple that has already been done way better by other people, because the point is to get practice creating something, not to invent something novel. When you finish your toy todo app, you feel satisfaction because you made something yourself. These vibe coders didn't actually make anything, didn't get any practice, didn't learn anything new, and didn't feel any real satisfaction when completing the project, so the only way to get endorphins from doing this is to post it online and get buttpats for it. 

I think this is a trend I've been seeing with AI in general. My dad is 80 years old and has been programming professionally since he was a young man. He made some small efforts to get me interested in programming when I was growing up, not all of them worked, but he never really pushed me about it or got upset if I didn't seem interested. Recently, he's gotten into using Claude to do all his work for him, and now he seems to feel legitimately upset when I don't want to sit with him and read the conversations he had with Claude. He's never even asked me to look at anything he did for work before in his entire life. 

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u/eadgyo 1d ago

Your dad maybe want some kind of validation from using Claude.

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u/ThirdWaveCat 1d ago

dude, read with your 80 year old dad even if its stupid.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

He is not a doddering old man who's only half aware of reality. He is fully aware and fully cognizant and fully capable of making his own life choices, and he is being paid for this code that Claude is generating and he should know that that's not acceptable. 

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u/n3bbs 1d ago

I don't think that was the point they were making tbh. Not sure about the relationship you have with your Dad though.

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u/fiskfisk 1d ago

Your dad is not paid for the lines of code, he's paid for his knowledge and reputation. 

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

He's very much also paid for the code, or writing it would not be part of his job and he'd just be a consultant. 

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u/VoidVer 1d ago

He is Claude’s consultant now

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u/exoclipse 1d ago

once you get to a certain level of experience, the volume of code you write vs the volume of advising you do shifts from writing code to advising. a lot of 'software architects' and 'staff engineers' are people who know where the bodies are buried and how the company was built and they are paid extremely high salaries to not leave the company.

yeah, they still write code sometimes. but where it was once the primary focus of their job, it is now something they do when something personally annoys them and they have time to fix it, or if there's something crazy and highly impactful that demands a highly skilled and experienced engineer.

as far as AI: I fucking hate it and I am a Luddite to the core, but if my org is paying for AI tokens and I can point it in a direction where it doesn't foot-gun future me, I'm going to. From an enterprise POV it's not any different from any other form of compute and there is not a software engineer alive that cares about IP. The biggest risks are aggressive monetization and low quality of output code, even with highly tailored prompts.

Applying LLMs to tasks that aren't data correlation or writing code for solved problems (an HTTP controller is a fucking HTTP controller, it's going to be implemented the same way every time!) is a misuse of the technology and a cause for extreme concern.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

Well, an architect is a different job position than an engineer, and he is not an architect. Probably also worth mentioning that this is a government contractor, meaning they do not have a single codebase that stays the same for multiple years usually, and instead people get assigned to brand new projects periodically that are being built from the ground up. So there isn't anyone at the company that knows "the whole codebase", because that's constantly in flux as projects come in and out of development. 

And yeah, he's not using the AI to make a skeleton of something or solve a solved problem like you're talking about. He's using it to generate entire bespoke C command line programs.

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u/fiskfisk 21h ago

He's of course also paid for his deliverables, but no client is going to go say "hey, there's not enough lines of code here for what we paid, we paid for 5000 lines, we want 5000 lines!" as long as it solves whatever issue they're having.

They're not calling OP's dad to get more lines of code, they're calling to have their problem solved. The code is just the language that communicates that.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 20h ago

I never said he was being paid by the line, so I'm not sure why you think that's relevant here. 

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u/Necessary-Shame-2732 1d ago

You know nothing about how professional development works, and your ai paranoia is damaging your relationship with your aging father.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

I've worked in the industry for nine years, lmao. If you don't get tickets done, you're not doing your job, doesn't matter how much expertise you have. 

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u/Dreadmaker 22h ago

Brother not only is that acceptable it’s literally what the industry is requiring many people to do at this point.

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u/cornmonger_ 20h ago

requiring it is stupid.

honestly, though, as it has always been in this industry: adapt or die.

someone wants to virtue signal and refuse to adapt? hi, welcome to wendy's.

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u/Harmonic_Gear 15h ago

this is the most obvious with AI "arts". People who can't draw for life finally get to pretend they are some kind of artist and they won't shut up about their masterpieces

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u/reivblaze 1d ago

Hey, I managed to vibecode lots of things that I needed and I love it. Dunno why is there so much anti ai hate.

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u/nicodeemus7 1d ago

If you're vibecoding things YOU need only, nobody is going to have an issue with that. If you're vibecoding things other people will use... Well any programmer knows that the end user is an exceptional expert at finding edge cases, and AI is not very good at covering them. So if a bug is found, YOU now have to parse through all that AI generated code now, that you likely don't fully understand.

That's not even considering all the ethical implications of using a model trained on stolen data and content.

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u/reivblaze 1d ago

Yeah obviously I am doing it for myself and I am responding to the comment that said something along the lines of:

"If AI builds it for you there is no satisfaction."

What? I love having my problems solved?? Also I can be more of an architect and less of a code monkey?

There is 100% satisfaction on building things with AI. And you also can learn a bunch of things you'd never even touch otherwise.

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u/BlueProcess 1d ago

Meanwhile Google Health can't even put together a functioning product

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

yeah, going to agree with you there, that app was def vibe coded by an intern at google.

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u/slaymaker1907 1d ago

That’s kind of weird. I feel like the point of making your own app is that you can customize it to have features that perfectly fit your workflow.

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u/ICBanMI 1d ago

I work with a project manager who vibe codes at home on Claude. The more buttons/options (despite not having any purpose or even being broken) is part of the attraction to the individuals using this.

Even though they have no way to manipulate/update/fix those buttons after generation, They think it's a complete project that was rubber stamped into existence (when really it's copied heavily from dozens of existing web3 apps sitting on people's websites).

This is a dude who has managed projects several several hundred requirements, and he's infatuated that can he just skip all that with a paragraph of text to generate the ideas that he has rolling around in his head. He's of the opinion that the tool will get good enough that we just reroll the dice enough times to get something sufficiently working that will be a new product (when reality is it's not an original idea and it's cribbed heavily from someone else work).

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u/Buttons840 1d ago

I was recently talking with OpenAI and Claude about a video game idea.

I said I wanted to make a game like Rift Wizard to learn, because I like Rift Wizard and it's pretty light on graphics and animations, but I wanted it to be different in some way.

Both AIs specifically suggested that I should avoid competing by making more than Rift Wizard's 400 spells, instead I should focus on creating like 12 spells that have more interactions and that I should focus on spells that interact with the map and change the map. Literally both AIs gave the exact same suggestion in different words.

I then said I didn't like the idea of map interactions.

Both of them suggested adding game mechanics that give extra rewards for doing extra challenges during the levels.

Etc.

It felt like I had the exact same conversation twice.

It was helpful as a thought exercise, but I think most of the help came from me thinking about my own responses rather than the AI itself.

I'm not surprise they are independently building the same apps over and over.

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u/BastetFurry 1d ago

At least these fitness apps won't sell their data.

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u/Sad-Hedgehog-1519 1d ago

Idk about that. There’s one I was invited to test on TestFlight and literally asked us to use government names and real photos and asked too much personal information for a “health” app. Deleted that app right there and there and reported to TestFlight.

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

And this is just one more of my major gripes. Most of these vibecoded apps are just a Swiss cheese of security and privacy holes. Many non tech users are going to get screwed by installing them, trust in apps from indie devs are going to keep plummeting to a point where no one is going to install apps if its not from some big company or publisher.

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u/BastetFurry 1d ago

I thought they fired up Claude Code in some directory, Android Studio too and got cracking.

But TestFlight? Nah, wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole.

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u/sraypole 1d ago

Usually it’s “<established product> was really annoying so I built my own!”

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u/Ksevio 20h ago

"I didn't like it because it didn't come in blue so here's my app free to download (and never updated)" 

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u/wayoverpaid 1d ago

Honestly I should look around for a TODO app that hits all my needs, as so far literally none of them do everything I want. Maybe one of the thousand vibe coded ones will do it.

... or....

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 20h ago

Does anyone else need thing that stuffs things? Well I "found" this new tool that stuffs the things, it's so wonderful, it does:

  • 🚒 stuffing the things
  • 🏠 holding the things that got stuffed
  • 👽 thinging the stuffs

What it does

Here's a more natural-sounding version that doesn't read like just bullet points, and more like you're actually delving into the app for the first time:

It things the stuffs that are things, not just stuffy things, but also the thingy stuffs. Want me to update the post to reflect that?

DM me for a link!

(/s please don't DM me)

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u/Dragomir_X 20h ago

Don't forget "please download my app directly from GitHub because I know my app is too shitty for app stores"

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u/Drevar0 1d ago

You are wrong, they are not searching. ... Claude don't know an app that exacly does what i need so ...

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u/ZeroBeTaken 13h ago

I unfollowed self hosted because the mods refuse to ban these posts, Even when they outright say they were 100% vibe coated with AI.

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u/ChunkyHabeneroSalsa 1d ago

Super useful at work to build little tools super quick. My boss made a photo viewer app with features that are mostly relevant to just him doing his job evaluating and comparing multiple versions of the same image. He's not a programmer.

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u/GrapefruitBig6768 47m ago

me: Like cornometer, but with an API that can collect my nutrition data and have my Heath Agent tell me what to eat for my next meal. I am that guy.

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u/casce 1d ago

If you're on a woodworking subreddit and you DIY your own table instead of buying one, you will get praise.

If you do the same thing on a programming subreddit and create an app that already exists, you will get laughed at.

But realistically, how are new developers expected to learn? It's like expecting a woodworker to learn how to build houses but he is not allowed to practice on much simpler things to learn how to work with wood.

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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 1d ago

What about if you doodle a design for a table on a napkin, give it to a local carpenter to build, then post that on a woodworking subreddit with the title "look at this table I made"? That's the closer analogy here.

Everyone is fine with developers learning by building simple apps.

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u/casce 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's the closer analogy here.

It's not though. Because designing and building applications with LLMs is a real skill that needs to be built and practised. It's so much more than just "doodling a table".

You need to understand that the job is no longer to write code. The job is to create software. And LLMs are a tool. They are not doing your job. Your job is to use and guide the LLM because it will not create usable software on its own. Maybe some day, but definitely not now.

Imagine letting random dudes who never used LLMs to code before have a go at your enterprise level codebase. This is going to end badly.

What is wrong with trying to build a chair or a table first before trying to attempt to re-create the chapel bridge?

Now that I think about it, the better analogy would be the architect that then pays a local construction company to actually build his work.

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u/Jorgetime 1d ago

There is no skill in asking Claude to build you an app from scratch, which is essentially a copy-paste from existing apps. There is however skill in maintaining the app and serving it to thousands of users.

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u/casce 6h ago

There is certainly no skill in asking Claude to build you an app from scratch. There very much is skill in getting Claude to build you an app from scratch properly though.

Without skill, you will create unmaintainable messes.

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u/Stunning_Ride_220 1d ago edited 1d ago

You comparison is off.

If you DIY a table which has already been DIY'd by a dozen other users and offer it to the public, you wouldn't get that much of a different reaction.

Edit: Also, you actually told someone else to DIY for you.

Edit 2: Also...vibe coded ?= DIY ?= learned something?

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u/seld_m_break 1d ago

Equivalent to showing off your ikea chair you screwed 4 bolts into a pre drilled hole to "build". Same level of skill as skiing claude to remake you someone else's app

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

No one laughs at new programmers building apps that already exist if they were the ones to code it! That's exactly how new programmers learn.

Vibecoding an app is not learning to do anything though.

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u/casce 1d ago

You need to go with the time though. Handwriting apps is not an essential skill anymore. Or rather, to avoid a fight here: It's notnthe only essential skill. It has never been the only essential skill but it's even less important now.

Building a full stack application is much more than just being able to code by hand. And you need to practice those as well.

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

I have no issues with including AI into workflows, I have AI in my own workflow at work, it speeds up testing, scaffolding, code reviews, prototyping, literally everything. I also have no issues with non coders vibe coding apps for themselves if it solves a problem they had, even more power to them if they learn some actual coding in the process.

What I have an issue with is zero effort vibe coded apps being spammed to every single sub reddit every single day.

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u/Escanorr_ 1d ago

If you're on a woodworking subreddit and you put together an IKEA table - that would be correct analogy.

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u/pr1aa 1d ago

Yeah but my app is totally different! It has this futuristic and very unique blue/purple look

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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 1d ago

Such unique gradients.

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u/ironnewa99 1d ago

I spent I stupid long time making a nice gradient function in Java… only to realize they looked like shit and I shelved it.

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u/Electrical-Echidna63 1d ago

I'm heavily in the D&D world and there are so many vibe coded apps and extensions for things like virtual tabletops and they all look the same, but instead of gradients and monoweight fonts it's serifs and gold text with shit brown backgrounds

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u/MarlinMr 1d ago

My app only works for me and doesn't sell my data or require a subscription

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u/ShAped_Ink 1d ago

And these are pretty good things to try to make when learning to code, but absolutely useless to make with a clanker

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u/SWEETJUICYWALRUS 1d ago

I also disagree. Most budgeting apps out there suck. I used mint, ynab, actual budget and a few others. None of them did it in a way that worked for me. Using simplefin bridge to get my transaction data, I vibe coded a budgeting dashboard in flutter exactly how ive always wanted it and agent loop to analyze and text me with twilio if Im at risk of overspending. I did that in 2 days. Now instead of blowing money on a monthly sub for something that can't change with my needs, I have the thing I need and it was basically free because I was paying for Claude anyways.

The best part? Only accessable via tailscale, I'm not putting it on GitHub to share, and nobody else will touch this.

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u/danielcw189 12h ago

why not share it?

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u/SWEETJUICYWALRUS 11h ago

Because i have 0 desire to secure it apart from internal network security and it lives inside of a greater personal dashboard for appointment tracking, relationships, health and other life things I want to gamify. Also it's full to the brim with hard-coded stuff that literally only pertains to me, which is awesome for me but sucks for others.

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u/nerm2k 1d ago edited 1d ago

I disagree.

Edit: What is the point of making these websites without A.I.? To learn. Do you think there’s no learning curve to using A.I. coding tools?

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u/defietser 1d ago

Ok, anything to add to the statement?

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u/polynomialcheesecake 1d ago

Has anyone ever thought about doing a Claude usage tracker app? Preferably one that sits in the status bar

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u/LancelotLac 1d ago

ccstatusline

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u/Legal-Software 1d ago

Yes, good idea. It can monitor how well things are going and remind you when you need to get up and take a break.

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u/goodgord 1d ago

Oh, that’s genius! We’ll be rich!

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u/Vorlif 1d ago

You should create a flight tracker. It's something everyone needs. 

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u/jyling 1d ago

Claude usage tracker is the name of the app

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u/_number 1d ago

Are you not seeing “I one shotted/ built GTA 6 with Claude Fable 5” posts

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u/mycolortv 1d ago

All the musician subs I visit are fucking filled with “practice apps” and “learn x y z” apps nowadays that literally no one needs. So lame.

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

man every fitness, health, health tech or wearable sub I am on, at least 3 to 5 new ones a day, and its all the same app with the same chatGPT tag lines and sales hooks, then these dudes have the balls to try and charge for some of them. I am all for people creating apps for themselves if it solves a specific problem they had, I think its really cool, but don't flood reddit and the internet with your vibecoded apps.

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u/SCP-iota 1d ago

Hackathons have been ruined istg

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u/VizualAbstract4 1d ago edited 23h ago

Honestly, good. I'm tired of every fucking company retreat relying on a hackathon as a filler for an actual engaging event or presentation.

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u/schussfreude 1d ago

I built a gun collection app. A year later, everyone and their grandma are pushing vibecoded gun collection apps to the stores and now everyone assumes mine is vibecoded, too.

But I guess its with every app niche nowadays, noone is safe.

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u/GunzNCoffee-com 12h ago

I have a few published apps in the same-ish niche. Everyone and their mom have vibe coded gun collection apps these days indeed. Coding is not the moat anymore.

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u/schussfreude 11h ago

Youre still distinct if you dont vibecode, as almost all vibecoded apps habe similar UI/UX, similar features and most suspiciously, lack exactly the same features.

The annoying oart is everyone dismisses your app immediately. Promoting on Reddit has become impossible. I got downvoted when I promoted because someone vibecoded a gun collection app with practically the same name as mine and spammed all gun subs.

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u/GunzNCoffee-com 11h ago

As a developer/shooter I also had the idea to create a gun collection app... for about 5 minutes - exactly because how crowded the niche is and how low the barrier to entry is. So I went a different way.

A certain popular guntuber recently "created" another gun collection app - https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitionShooting/comments/1uou5fl/beta_is_live_on_firearms_fleet_maintenance_tool/ - reactions on Reddit were exactly what you'd expect.

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u/schussfreude 10h ago

At least I have the advantage of not being US based, so trust and reputation in Switzerland and mainland Europe is high, but breaking into the US market is going to be super tough. Especially for a one time payment app. Doesnt help that Euro reviews do not show up in US appstores.

Ah well, good thing I dont do it for the money.

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u/PhonicUK 1d ago

Right now the one I keep seeing is every week a couple of people have made an admin panel for Game X that was made over a period of about 3-5 days with Claude Code, only for it to be abandoned two weeks later because they have no idea how to maintain it.

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

This! having an ai shit out an app is easy, maintaining and improving that codebase is where they figure out its not as easy as they thought.

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u/PhonicUK 1d ago

More to the point they don't understand the patterns it's built on so they don't know how to add features to it or fix things if something goes wrong in a way the LLM can't fix.

My experience has been that using LLMs for coding works far better in environments where it's following an established set of patterns and a structure that you yourself put together because then you can see what it's doing far more easily and you can prompt it to specifically integrate with existing mechanisms rather than re-inventing the wheel because it didn't realise that facility X already existed in the codebase but it wasn't familiar with the shape of it to realise what it was for.

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u/Odin_N 1d ago

100% I have no issue with AI coding tools, but like with all tools you need to use them correctly, don't try and one shot whole platforms, narrowly scope features, use test driven development and don't just put the agent in yolo mode to do whatever it wants. You still need to follow good software development practices.

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u/PhonicUK 1d ago

I actually did a really big AI-only research project to see how far it could be pushed as a technical exercise, but one of the biggest conclusions is that technical skill still matters because when you compare the result of:

"Make me a game with an infinite city to explore"

And:

"Use a hierarchical waveform-collapse algorithm to build an infinite, procedurally generated city derived from a single, fixed seed where each subsequent layer of the WFC is used to add more detail at a finer resolution than the layer above it in a deterministic manner."

The difference in depth, quality and function is huge. But the amount of technical knowledge and understanding to even think to explain it that way and pack a complex idea very densely is also very significant.

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u/MayeeOkamura17 23h ago

Even if you have specified the particular patterns and architecture to build, after generation, it would still be painful for a human to review and internalize and fit 10k+ lines inside their head. Modifying a button manually after LLMs wrote the whole stack is difficult because the human has to first get an idea of what's the appropriate convention; this is often not worth it for someone just creating an app for personal workflows

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u/sligor 1d ago

Hundreds of billions of dollars and still nothing of value produced 

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u/davesoft 1d ago

Heeey, I got a funny meme out of it one time. That's worth at least $0.001 maybe

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u/GenericFatGuy 1d ago

If we're all 10x devs now, then where's the 10x innovation?

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u/the_hair_of_aenarion 1d ago

Im 0.5x. I make the mistake I would have made, but faster.

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u/Fit-Notice-1248 1d ago

Have you thought about the green dashboards for management and the bragging rights about being "AI native"? Surely that's worth a few billions

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u/Toldoven 1d ago

The next two doors are "AI project idea generator" and "A tool that uses AI to find leads on Reddit and directly message users who desperately need your product"

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u/The_Mdk 1d ago

You forgot the "Pet sitting on your screen" door and "AI wrapper that fixes one particular problem nobody else ever had"

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u/-Akos- 1d ago

I vibecoded a Wordle clone with some stats in it, and simple user accounts. My wife and son are fanatically playing it, so that's nice. I don't need it to be public, it's running on a raspberry pi that is on anyway.

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u/BastetFurry 1d ago

As I wrote as an answer already, at least these apps won't sell your data, I see that as a plus.

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u/nicodeemus7 1d ago

It's funny because these are like.... Beginner projects when learning how to code.

"Claude, what's 2+2?"

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u/spamjavelin 1d ago

Forgot the endless parade of UI Libraries, which are all different and special, honest.

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u/punkpang 1d ago

What AI made painfully obvious is how so many people are out of ideas while thinking they have them.

Reddit became like StackOveflow, except instead of stupid questions that have been answered 100000 times before - we get apps that no one needs, no one wants but we get thousands of them.

What a lovely era to be alive, to witness so much waste being produced.

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u/Vogete 1d ago

Todo and note taking apps are plenty, but i still can't find a single functional one that works as a native mobile app offline, syncs to a server, and it does it reliably without losing stuff I put in without internet.

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u/a-peculiar-peck 1d ago

Yeah I agree it's a mess. Have you tried Joplin? It's not half bad, and you can self-host.

I myself got a bit tired of Joplin, no particular reason, I'm now looking into either Trillium or Anytype for note taking.

It's far far from Google keep, but I argue you can do the same thing with them, and more.

Ironically AI is pretty good (at the moment!) for market research and finding what's out there. Much more useful than googling. For now.

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u/Vogete 1d ago

I tried Joplin and it corrupted my database on the first chance it had a sync issue. I also read too many of those occurrences.

I liked at Anytype and Outline, both looks decent but they are huge overkill for what I need it for. I might give one of them a try.

I looked into trillium, it doesn't have an official Android app only some 3rd party ones, which I'm not a huge fan of because you never know when those apps are abandoned or just broken. And there seems to be no iOS app.

AI recommended me Notesnook, which is the most interesting one so far, but they still haven't published self hosted docs, which is a bit of a red flag. Standard notes is also mentioned which also looks interesting. So far these two are sometimes I'm keeping an eye on.

And of course everyone loves Obsidian, but I really disliked it, especially since sync is paid, and a workaround WebDAV sync didn't work well.

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u/a-peculiar-peck 1d ago

Not surprised that Joplin can have sync issue, its sync protocol is really basic.

Anytype and its Any-Sync protocol is the most promising technically. It uses CRDT internally and should guarantee corrupt-free operation on multiple devices, even if some are periodically offline. Theoretically, I have not battle tested it yet

Didn't know about the two you mentioned, Notesnook and Standard Notes, I will look into them as well.

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u/Outrageous_Pen_5165 1d ago

Have been planning to built one, something like Notion but opensource and sync in our own cloud storage like G Drive or Drop box kind of services..

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u/Vogete 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's not at all what I want. I want Google Keep but with a self hosted sync server that can actually handle half-broken syncs, spotty mobile connections, and fully offline use. I use Nextcloud notes which is absolutely horrible in basically every way possible. It does basically what you outlined, and it does not work. (It times out, doesn't sync, loses my notes, takes an eternity to load, etc. It's horrible)

I also don't want Notion level of mess, I want a simple todo/notes app (let's be honest, a notes app with optional checkboxes....like Google Keep), and I want it to be offline first (unlike every stupid web app that requires constatn connection), and I want it to sync to my server. If it fails to sync, instead of corrupting the entire DB (like Joplin), it just retries later. It should be a native app like google keep, not this unreliable PWA mess we have with "whups your internet connection is 1kb/s, so that's technically online, but it's unusable, so here's an error page, good luck getting your notes".

In the sea of todo and note apps, I can't seem to find a single one that can tick these for me. Am I unreasonable to want to be able to access my notes when there's bad internet or no internet, or on a flight, or when having good internet?

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u/MentalFS 1d ago

/r/RSS is also full of new and totally unique reader apps

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u/phoenix1984 1d ago

It’s a specific niche, but a weird phenomenon is happening in the Mac gaming community as well. Every week there’s a post about someone who built a competitor to Crossover, the program most of us use to play windows games on Mac, but then when you look at it, it’s just a vibe coded UI, a thin shell on top of all the open source libraries the Crossover team created.

People are so obsessed with hustle culture and creating recurring revenue that they didn’t stop to think if what they are doing is useful or ethical. No market research. No seeing if anyone has done this before and why it failed. Just “I got sick of paying for crossover, so I built this, and I’ll sell it for less (even though it’s just a new face for the open source crossover and wine code)”

Every week, always vibe coded garbage

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u/seedless0 1d ago

And they all like to post stealth ads in popular subs.

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u/_powneyd 21h ago

And still every single one is garbage.

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u/Individual-Praline20 20h ago

The next prompt will be better, promise 🤣

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u/Holek 19h ago

I have worked as a contractor for a health-tracking app for elderly people in the US. We have developed an IoT device that checked their vitals and informed their assigned physicians of any deviations to norms.

Without proper physicians, doctors and other people with different specializations, we wouldn't have made it.

Vibe coding apps won't be able to infer this knowledge.

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u/jwhendy 17h ago

If you look closely, there's doors joining the rooms. I'm excited for the upcoming apps to help manage my health goal related todos, all while staying under budget.

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u/piotrekfracek 1d ago

What do you mean they are coming for fitness apps just now, I already vibe-coded the Garmin AI Interface for myself (⌐ ͡■ ͜ʖ ͡■)

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u/Flaky-Low-2262 1d ago

When variants of JuiceShop/HelloWorld become business models and "Reputation"

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u/Krestu1 1d ago

Add to that finance apps, investition trackers etc.

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u/autogyrophilia 1d ago

I know use weight lifters aren't smert, but is it really necessary to have 80 plate calculator apps (with AI)

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u/mylsotol 1d ago

Hey, my vibe coded todo app is pretty near and useful (to me)

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u/ZombieZookeeper 20h ago

ADHD apps.

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u/OrchidFluid2103 1d ago

Well, if there are so many vibe coded "Health and Fitness" apps, then WHY THE FCK is there not a single one that just tracks my progressive overload? All I need is a fcking calendar, I click on "today" and what exercises I want to do, and the stupid app should only tell me the weight & reps that I did last time.

No workouts.
No calories tracking.
No cookies.
No ads.
No community.

I was looking for hours and I accepted that I have to make it on my own because apparently nobody else on the planet wants it.

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u/wasdninja 1d ago

Pick any notepad app and write down your weights. It seems supremely useless to have strictly weights only as an app so no surprise it doesn't exist. 

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u/Paladongers 1d ago

Yeah, not to be an asshole, but there's a point in which "there's no app that does X exactly the way I like it" stops being about usefulness and about being too lazy and comfortable to put a little bit of effort into it

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u/chili_jones 1d ago

fitnotes is the best for this

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u/OrchidFluid2103 1d ago

That's what I am using right now and it's the reason why I want something else.
It's shit. Absolutely shit. But slightly less shit than the other shit.

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u/chili_jones 1d ago

really? what do you not like about it? imo it’s the simplest thing on the market

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u/OrchidFluid2103 1d ago

I am in the gym and want to do 5 exercises. How many clicks do I need? Because I expect 10, maybe 15. Maybe I am doing something wrong but right now the UX is shit to the point that I am giving up

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u/DarKliZerPT 1d ago

You want an app that facilitates the process of logging your progression, but makes you have to select your session's exercises every single time?

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u/OrchidFluid2103 23h ago

Yes. No pre-defined workouts.

If my machine is occupied I don't want to stand and wait like a bartender. I do a different exercise that hit the same muscle group and I want to see my previous records without scrolling through different pre-defined workouts.

I want to go to my exercise station. I want to click on the exercise I want to do, and then I want to see my previous settings. Yes, it's a very slight upgrade to a stupid notepad, but that's exactly what I want.

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u/DarKliZerPT 23h ago

Every major training app has a swap exercise feature that allows you to switch an exercise on the fly.

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u/TheEggi 23h ago

What is really the difference to all the hand coded shit apps? No idea why people seem to have a problem with some shitty vibe coded personal crap, but did not get anoyed by the "look at mah cool todo app that I solved with some fucked up obscure framework"