Because sometimes a good playlist, a gradient background, and zero logic is all you need.
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I don't entirely disagree
Haha fun post !
Additional thoughts: There’s a third space between vibe coding and “real” coding: coding with an AI assistant. Tools like Cursor let you stay in flow while shipping real features. It’s not purely aesthetic like vibe coding, but not as soul-crushing as manual debugging either.
I’ve been digging into this space because I co-founded Manifest. It’s a super simple backend you define in YAML, and it works nicely with AI-powered code editors. The goal is to remove the backend complexity while staying in your dev workflow.
And yeah, from what I’ve seen talking to users, vibe coders and AI-assisted coders have very different mindsets. One’s here for the feels, the other for flow + results. He needs to validate the generated code, to understand what is behind the result, to ship it to clients. Both legit, just... not the same audience.
Totally — I think there’s this emerging group of “flow coders” who want to stay in motion, validate as they go, and still ship real stuff.
I’ve been tracking this shift while working on EveryDev.ai, where we’re curating tools and ideas around AI-assisted dev workflows. Manifest’s YAML backend fits that vibe perfectly.
Damn, I’m all in on this - pushing pixels around just for the vibe is the real joy, not slogging through tickets. I seriously need to mess with pointless UI stuff more.
pretty hilarious tbh i've def spent hours just tweaking colors for no reason at all you think the fun goes away if you have to ship for real or can you keep that vibe going
And long live vibe blogging :)
That's the right kind of "vibe coding", formerly known as working in "the zone" or using side projects to remember that coding can be fun, not the other kind of "vibe coding" that has been trending recently.
Honestly, some of my favorite hours were spent tweaking gradients and animations that never saw prod. Anyone here actually taken a vibe project all the way to a real launch?
I did, I mean I had to take it down, but honestly, that was a mistake.
What is a vibe project? Like project for fun? I think the purpose of such project is to get fun, when you take project seriously, it has motivation, purpose, roadmap even the little one. And you work for a goal, which not always fun. Fun project can be poor coded, I don't think you want to mess up with serious project - you're going to loose your motivation once you realize LLM can't work it out and you don't know how to while you really need it.
I mean it's all fun untill it's not, two different things. You can't be vibe coding in your job - it's called lazy or poor salary.
Thank you for this, really, ❤️
This anti-vibe coding was more or less valid 6 months ago. Now put an AI in a senior dev hands, and he'll do marvels. 95% of my code is now vibe coded, and yet still architectured the way I want. When you know what you want, how to do it and if you can explain correctly your thoughts to the AI, then you do not need to manually code anymore. So yes, vibe code is the way. There's no point not vibe coding nowadays. It's like riding a horse to go to work when you can just drive your car.
100%. Vibe coding is like jamming with your keyboard—no pressure, just flow. Sometimes the best ideas come when you're not chasing perfection but just playing around with the code like it’s a sandbox. Debug later, vibe now.
Amusing article, and there's definitely some truth to it! This 'vibe coding' is a familiar feeling when you just want to create something beautiful. 😊
Yes, sometimes AI acts dumb, and here, of course, it's very important to use really good, advanced models – this significantly reduces the number of such moments and saves your nerves. But even with the best of them, sometimes you need a certain psychological resilience to explain the task in more detail or from a different angle over and over again.
But what a plus – AI will never tell you to 'f*** off' or roll its eyes when you yourself start acting dumb, giving contradictory instructions, or forgetting details. It will patiently try to help. And when after such 'ritual dances' with AI everything finally works out and complex logic starts functioning – that's also a kind of 'vibe' and enormous satisfaction
Very interesting topic is discussed above. Most of the India-based developers metaverse real estate development company likes actual coding. That thing where you write real logic, fix real bugs, name variables like userId, userId2, and finalFinalUserIdFixed
Yes, but it's not fun, vibe coding is fun, bro.
I see coding as both an art and a mental workout—it keeps my problem-solving skills sharp. From my own experience, I've found that relying too heavily on AI actually weakens those muscles. When I've tried leaning on it too much, I start losing my grasp on syntax and, worse, I begin doubting my own abilities to figure things out.
There's something irreplaceable about the satisfaction you get from pushing through a tough problem on your own. That moment when everything finally clicks after you've wrestled with it—that's what makes it all worthwhile.
I have to disagree with what you're saying here. I think your view comes from a different experience with coding than mine, and honestly, it sounds like you might not have spent enough time in the trenches to really understand what gets lost when you outsource too much of the thinking.
vibe coding is the gateway drug to dev life. It's where creativity lives before Jira tickets kill the mood. Sometimes you just need to build something beautiful and useless to remember why you started coding in the first place. Loved this! 🔥
Vibe coding in my experience is when you try to explain the LLM what you really want and it doesn't understand, so you go back and forth until it finally gets it. Then you realize you spent so much time with those prompts that it was faster doing the design yourself :)
Absolutely loved this! Such a fun and relatable take, sometimes we all need to remind ourselves why we started coding in the first place. Vibes matter too.
April 1st was quite a few months ago 🤣
We’re creating a generation of devs who ship fast, but can’t explain why the code runs.
Lmao , the irony !!
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