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I tried three times, just for fun, to start a decent-sized projects from start to finish without interventions. All failed. The AI can't seem to have far enough horizon to see the projects to completions.
AI needs a super well defined scoped, for example: an IDE companion or logo generator or writing a specific Class implementation, to thrive.
After a week of trying to vibe cdk code, then sitting down in 4 hours to do the whole thing myself I can confirm. While it is now a good tool to combat fatigue, research and prototype, it still struggles with context switching, arid knowledge domains and long-feedback-loop systems
But it is slower than someone that is knowledgeable about the library and languages unless you don’t care about correctness.
E.g. I still kind of write python as if I was writing C++. So, sometimes I’ll write a for loop iterating over integer indexes and tell the LLM “Hey can you rewrite this more pythonically” and I get decent results.
I have already vibe-coded countless number of scripts and two side projects that were on my "list" for years, these projects would have never seen the light of day if not for Cursor. That's the whole point.
The fact that they could be "vibe coded" means that they (or something similar) probably already existed, but you just didn't know they did.
It doesn't feel that different but it is a little faster
This is not news for people who already know how to code. The problem is that there are tens of thousands of people who have no idea what they're doing, yet they evangelize their hollow victories to anyone willing to listen. Worse yet, there are grifters like levelsio who will pretend like it's great because they know that's what their followers want to hear.
I have already vibe-coded countless number of scripts and two side projects that were on my "list" for years, these projects would have never seen the light of day if not for Cursor. That's the whole point.
Is it. For small scripts like these you can get far with basic search and sources like docs/github/SO. Maybe cursor is more “fun”, “engaging”, and the like, but it’s not like it was a difficult job before.
I'm going to keep shilling this until people start doing it: I'd love to see everyone who says he's vibecoded something non-trivial and posts/blogs about it start dumping and attaching his full chats to it. This would really help people to understand what's hype/exaggeration and what's real, and would help others be better at the real part.
Was this vibe-blogged?
'Vibe coding' is here to stay and the future of software development is assistant-led interfaces. I pair program daily with Claude Code on a distributed systems & a handful of other apps as needs arise. Most of my work is puppeteering, as well as careful directing. & I can't sit blindly, but we're producing valid software at pace I've never experienced in my career; with additional bandwidth to do some leisure activities in real time without losing productivity, vibing.
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The fact that they could be "vibe coded" means that they (or something similar) probably already existed, but you just didn't know they did.
But the amount of time saved because one could vibe code it rather than search through Google’s terrible results is immense and a benefit in and of itself.
The decision to automate is already done, no need to rush through it.
I have already vibe-coded countless number of scripts and two side projects that were on my "list" for years, these projects would have never seen the light of day if not for Cursor. That's the whole point.
The fact that they could be "vibe coded" means that they (or something similar) probably already existed, but you just didn't know they did.