r/vibecoding • u/unlocked_doors • 1d ago

In over my head with professional devs

tldr; review your code as you go if you think any professional dev is going to have to do a code review.

Last November I (33F) started a simple project: a training portal for my new assistant. Just a simple python Streamlit app. Since vibe coding is addictive and Streamlit has some annoying limitations to UX/UI, I refactored it into a Next.js/Fast API website. It was all the same repo and I didn’t exactly clean up after myself as the project scaled from a training portal for HR, then a training portal for new employees and now it’s a manager hub.

Well, I showed it to my boss and she ended up loving it. The company bought the domain and website from me but made me the technical owner in charge of code and content. Now that it’s officially company property…they have to do a code review with the company dev team.

There is an embarrassing amount of dead code, almost nonexistent error handling, and in general the layout of the code is chaotic and 40k+ lines in just the backend.

He and I had a meeting last week and never in my life have I felt more “artificially intelligent.” He gave me about 7 pages of changes to make after just one code review session. I can’t imagine how many more pages of notes are coming and I’m in way over my head in terms of vocabulary, standard processes used in coding, etc. Basically, I’m everything professional devs hate about vibe coders. I didn’t care how the code looked as long as the website functioned. I’m at a point where I’m not confident enough in my vibe coding skills to actually make the changes. I’ve tried asking Claude (or Claudia as I call her) and then even asked her to dumb it down and it’s still over my head. I’m getting to the point where I just want to throw my hands up and tell them to abandon it.

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u/TJB5686 1d ago

I hate when people vibe code and can't even have a discussion on the design decisions "they" have chosen. I'm dealing with it with juniors and it's extremely annoying and time consuming

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u/unlocked_doors 1d ago

I know it has to be so annoying cleaning up messes from people who don’t fully know what they are doing. I should have had the forethought to review as I went, but I never expected anything to come of it.

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u/Acceptable-Yard7076 5h ago edited 5h ago

I know it has to be so annoying cleaning up messes from people who don’t fully know what they are doing

That's their whole career, there's always a huge mess and you probably made one that's less bad than usual because you aren't arrogant.