Vibe coding is NOT what is all cracked up to be

[jmcipale 105]

Ok, so the project I am working on: An indirect replacement for the nonsense known as discogs: Data tracking without all the nonsense. So I thought I would involve chatgpt to cut out some of the chafe. Big mistake. HUGE! 

 

On thing about vibe coding/chatgpt is, you the user HAVE TO KNOW what you are doing! It is one thing to be a complete noob about coding.. ANY CODING! but then the old garbage in/garbage out makes itself apparent. AI is, if one gets down to it, rather stupid and really DOESNT save a lot of time. But, it IS helpful for recalling commands that one has forgotten over time. Save your time and invest in other things besides AI stocks.

Edited December 23, 2025 by jmcipale

[Charlie 18,586]

5 hours ago, jmcipale said:

Ok, so the project I am working on: An indirect replacement for the nonsense known as discogs: Data tracking without all the nonsense. So I thought I would involve chatgpt to cut out some of the chafe. Big mistake. HUGE! 

 

On thing about vibe coding/chatgpt is, you the user HAVE TO KNOW what you are doing! It is one thing to be a complete noob about coding.. ANY CODING! but then the old garbage in/garbage out makes itself apparent. AI is, if one gets down to it, rather stupid and really DOESNT save a lot of time. But, it IS helpful for recalling commands that one has forgotten over time. Save your time and invest in other things besides AI stocks.

 

 I agree; I've been experimenting with CoPilot (Microsoft) and Gemini (Google) and so far it's been underwhelming so no investments in any AI...

[Kurt 3,200]

On 12/22/2025 at 11:09 PM, jmcipale said:

Ok, so the project I am working on: An indirect replacement for the nonsense known as discogs: Data tracking without all the nonsense. So I thought I would involve chatgpt to cut out some of the chafe. Big mistake. HUGE! 

 

On thing about vibe coding/chatgpt is, you the user HAVE TO KNOW what you are doing! It is one thing to be a complete noob about coding.. ANY CODING! but then the old garbage in/garbage out makes itself apparent. AI is, if one gets down to it, rather stupid and really DOESNT save a lot of time. But, it IS helpful for recalling commands that one has forgotten over time. Save your time and invest in other things besides AI stocks.

 

I'm interested to know what you don't like about Discogs.  I actually find it rather useful.

 

On the "vibe coding".... you are exactly right.  People think AI is a free ride.  Nope.  At best it can save you some time and it can act like an expedited "help" function, as you say.   But, you cannot rely on AI without being able to critically challenge it.  I do a lot of coding (I use Claude, mostly, not ChatGPT).   It can save you some time in writing bulk code, up front.  But, from there, it's best to tweak it and debug the code yourself.   The main thing I've found is that AI does not think logically when making code edits.  If you tell it to change just one feature of the code, you cannot trust that it will change ONLY that feature...it will hallucinate and create a change somewhere else for an unknown reason.  It's very maddening when trying to debug.  It's like trying to hit a moving target.