tl;dr a rant about new accounts advertising their vibe coded projects.
Since a couple of weeks I notice more and more brandnew accounts from various instances joining the threadiverse, just to post about their new service, software or game "they built".
No you didn't built this!
Every time I looked into the repo (if provided) there was a fucking AGENTS.md telling a clanker what to do.
And now you're coming in here. You don't care about the community you post in. You don't want to participate and contribute to this place. Your first post is a fucking ad for your new thing that "you've built".
But you didn't built it!
I'm not a full stack developer, but I've worked alongside developers who built amazing stuff for the free and open web. The lenghty discussions about wether a feature should be implemented this or that way, the long nights of trying to get a feature ready, only to throw it all away the next day because you realized it wasn't that good of an idea after all. It's hard work.
You just had a quick idea, told the billionaire bot what to do, and vomited out thousands of lines of code in a couple hours.
No, I won't check out your new thing that "you made".
And that's the sad part. Open source used to be fun. Discovering new stuff that others had built, giving it a try and maybe finding a small bug and opening a pull request. That feeling of working together on something that can be used by everyone, despite not knowing each other.
You don't have any of that. And you don't deserve my attention, because you didn't build anything.
Maybe. I'm an actual engineer and I've done both. I'm experimenting and learning the difference. It can be easy to get lazy and vibe until your project is eventually spaghetti.
Most of my work stuff is high quality. My integration tests are half slopped together.
I've made a vibe coded personal project, and it feels like vibe coded crap. I'm still iterating on that, but if it doesn't work out I can just trash the whole thing. Importantly, nobody has to deal with the slop but me.
I'd recommend utilising the various engineering skills and agents.
One of the prime issues of LLMs is that they know so much, but don't know when to apply what. For basic queries sure, but once you start going into the technical nitty gritty details, it's easy for the model to start reaching and making up shit.
Well written agents and skills can keep you on track, a well developed loop replicating real life processes (e.g. the design-develop-test-verify flow of software development), so you're not chatting with a bot, but spawn an entire team of agents that are experts in their own fields, and they pass tasks around until refined, developed and tested according to parameters. Hell you can even trust entire design cycles to them if you use the right agents.