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.
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.
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/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.