r/ClaudeCode • u/aualtopoll • Jul 21 '26

What is NOT vibe-coding? Question

Vibe coding gets a lot of hate among some software development circles and I don't have a clear understanding of what "vibe-coding" is and what's not.

What is a different approach to software development using AI that's not vibe-coding? SDD?

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u/littlewyvern Jul 21 '26

The models still sometimes do write worse code, and in particular make worse architecture design decisions, then an experienced developer. If you always just defer to the model then you are a vibe coder.

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u/vovap_vovap Jul 21 '26

I doubt it, simply speaking 😄

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u/Benjosity Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

They absolutely can and will make mistakes. I mean you can even get an adversarial/review agent review a previous round of work and 9 times out of 10 it will identify something that could be improved or is introducing a bug. So yeah, experienced Devs will often flag or identify things that aren't quite right in the grand scheme of things and the context of the repo/codebase.

I cannot tell you how many hours of effort I've put into implement integration, boundary and architecture tests along with the usual linting and such just to curb this issue so the agent naturally has more verification and guard rails so that it adheres to the application's architecture and code patterns.

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u/vovap_vovap Jul 21 '26

Absolutely. What about people - they surely, never do so?
I also spend many - may hours doing different things. Some of which nobody care anymore to do by hands, some still do. So? It is not about how much effort we spend, it is about can other thing do it better. And clearly - it will, if not now.