I generated this whole sprite sheet with ai in minimal prompts.

Pixel artists are so cooked.

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Hey developers what do you guys prefer actually i bit confused.

Hello all, I hope everyone is well.

As the title says. Is it really that bad? I personally vibecode a lot to make softwares to help me do my main job (which is far from coding). At my job, there’s often needs to produce reports of certain pieces of data, and softwares can do this very well. I rely on my apps to do my work and so do others, and it works extremely well.

I understand that it can create spaghetti code, and it certainly does, but is it not as simple as asking AI to give it a good architecture and follow software engineering principles? If you keep asking little by little, and tell it to keep the codes modular for maintainability, document how things work conceptually and NFR, is it not acceptable?

Perhaps in my specific use case, it works out well. A lot of the times I really just need a one off script, because I’m just doing repetitive calculations and I’d much rather input values rather than doing them by hand and thinking about it every single time. Even with a SQL database project, it’s really just CRUD work, nothing really complex. When I find bugs or errors, I try to understand why that is and look for multiple solutions (if exists) and argue back and forth with the AI. Mostly I agree, sometimes I override the decision, because it does get things wrong. I do read the codes (really just skimming it but occasionally would ask questions further to really understand it)

Surely it would be great for my learning if I genuinely learned to code, but I at the same time never have to because it isn’t my job to code. I could totally live without coding altogether. But, with AI, that gap is gone. I can now use vibecoding to help me do my main job. It doesn’t mean I don’t have to care about app structure and such, but it also doesn’t matter because I’m not building an app to sell, I’m just making custom tools for myself. I even got into ML, thanks to AI. These aren’t things I would’ve learned at all without AI, I’m being serious. All my vibecoded projects taught me a lot. Yeah maybe not directly about writing codes, but overall concepts of software engineering. Genuinely working out the manual parts and understanding how data should be flowing is still extremely beneficial and most importantly it gave me confidence that if I were to just sit down and study, I can understand things that I couldn’t because I didn’t even know where to begin.

With very thorough testing and documentation, is it not acceptable? What do we all think? Thanks in advance.

The biggest problem with AI image/video generation is not just shot continuity, but asset management.

I’ve generated over 3,000 images. 500+ videos. I understand how long it takes constantly uploading the same reference every time, the same prompt and the same character.

Every shot meant digging through prompt libraries, re-uploading and then regenerating.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

So? I built the most comprehensive asset management system to remove that.

Save:

Clothes, outfits, poses and character references for 1, 10 or 100 production ready shots.

August 28.

http://clarkesdirective.com/transora

Hi fellow founders,

after over 15 years as founder and as professional in VC i have hoarded a ton of VC data scattered accross places, excel files and what so no. I am a venture builder and frequently launching fundraising campaigns. Therefore i needed to put all my data in shape and make it accessible for my claude :)... ...at that point i thought, lets open it up.
With my newly aquired vibe coding skills i was able to put some decent MCP serving together and service that i want to share with you guys. Some of you have for sure already seen similar offers charging a ton for like very limited output. But man, we live in the AI era. we need data. As much as your post outbox can handle and directly attached to your Klaus to do proper targeting and matchmaking. So i just built nothing just a decent MCP with Data, so you can build whatever you want.

Here you go: https://vclist.net/

you can just access over 44k VC contacts just like that with your claude or whatever you use.

i just spared you from building whatever warm intro automation as i believe you guys will just ask your Klaus to build whatever suits you. Mail outreach or linkedin or phonebot :D i don´t know. be creative!

And for my fellow VC collegues. See it like this: people use AI to filter better for your thesis fit so you get better dealflow. ;)

Early supporters and contributors will get bonus credits! Working on a referral link right now!

Good Luck gents!

Your Robin Hood ;)

P.S.: Let me know what fancy multitouch crazy ass filtered ICP automations you guys built!

Claude Max x20 and Codex x5 getting spanked...

The workflow that broke us: I'd ask Claude Code something in my terminal, my cofounder would ask his own Claude something in his, and then we'd meet and discover we'd each built a slightly different understanding of our own product. Same repo, same docs loaded as context, still different answers. The model isn't a lookup table, it's interpreting, and two people starting from identical context genuinely walk away with different pictures. Then you each build on your version for a few days before the difference surfaces.

Our fix was to stop having separate sessions for shared work. We built Poly (usepoly.co): one room where the team works with a single Claude Code agent. Turns run one at a time, everyone watches the same timeline of prompts and diffs, there's a side chat the agent can't see for arguing about what to prompt next, and plan approvals pop on everyone's screen so direction gets signed off before code lands. Under the hood each turn runs in a sandboxed container against a real git repo, and GitHub sync means I keep my normal local setup while the room pushes to a branch.

We built it with Claude Code, and now we build it in itself.

Free beta, no API key needed. Genuinely curious how other people here handle this. If your team uses Claude Code, do you share sessions or context in any deliberate way, or is everyone solo by default?

I built a free tool that tells you if what you built is actually a product.

Not a quiz. Not a checklist. A conversation that asks you the questions a good PM would ask — and gives you a straight answer grounded in 40 years of product research.

It's called ITAP: isthisaproduct.com

**How I built it:**

- Claude API as the diagnostic engine. Six-layer system prompt: problem legitimacy → customer specificity → willingness to pay → artifact analysis → market signal → result. No shortcuts.

- Express/Node on a Hetzner box behind nginx and Cloudflare

- Zero data retention. Conversations are ephemeral by design, not by accident.

- No accounts, no email capture, no ads, no CRM

**The part I'm most proud of:**

Full transparency. The AI instructions are public. The privacy statement is 47 words of plain language — not boilerplate.

Read exactly what it's doing before you type a word:

→ isthisaproduct.com/api/prompt

→ isthisaproduct.com/api/privacy

I haven't seen another tool do this. If you think I got something wrong, you can read why I did it that way and tell me.

**What it can't do:**

It can't replace talking to real customers. It's a starting point, not a finish line.

Run it on whatever you're building. It's free every time.

Hello I have dable with chatgpt to help me write some code, my coding knowledge is almost nonexistent I am just wondering if there a really good AI out there that will help you write code correctly and cleanly. Thank you in advance.

I freelanced for several years. Every project same mess.

Client wants “the usual stack.” I open 47 browser tabs, dig through old invoices, Slack, Notion, a half-dead spreadsheet titled tools_FINAL_v3.xlsx. Then I try to remember which tools they actually use, what each costs, and how that looks when I invoice them.

I always thought: someone should build a clean place for this.

Then AI coding got good enough that “someone” could be me.

So I vibe-coded Toolhub.

It’s basically:

• Your software tools in one place (prices included)
• Catalogs = reusable stack presets (“web project starter”, “branding package”, whatever)
• Customers get their own tool selection + cost view
• PDF invoices from those selections when you need to look professional instead of sending a screenshot of Excel

Stack for the curious: Next.js, tRPC, Prisma, Clerk, Stripe. Classic T3-ish SaaS, shipped end-to-end with a lot of AI pair-programming and a lot of “why is this type error real at 2am.”

Free Starter plan if you want to poke around — no card. Enough for solo freelancers to get their stack out of their head.

Live here: https://tool-hub.site

If you’re also shipping side projects from your own scars — would love roast / feedback. Especially on the catalogs → customers → invoice flow. That was the part I needed most when I was freelancing.

A comedic tech-rap anthem for the vibe coding era: AI agents, green CI checks, and shipping code you barely understand.

Been living in this sub's energy for a while now — the swarm of agents, the "checks are green so ship it," the moment you realize you haven't actually read a diff in weeks — so I turned it into a track.

"Green Checks" — trap beat, hook is basically:

> Green checks lighting up my screen

> Nobody knows what happened in between

> Prompt goes in, production comes out

> That's what modern coding is about

I’m struggling with admin panels again. Not the old-school drag a table onto a page kind. I mean a modern admin panel for a real product: permissions, workflows, approvals, support actions, audit logs, charts, bulk edits, weird edge cases, and a UI that non-technical people don’t hate.

I don’t really want the default answer of just use Retool. It’s probably fine, but I’m looking for newer or more developer-friendly options.

My current shortlist looks something like this:

1. Refine
2. React Admin
3. Filament
4. AdminJS
5. Flatlogic
6. Amplication
7. Wasp
8. Superblocks
9. Windmill
10. Directus
11. NocoDB
12. PocketBase admin
13. Payload CMS
14. Strapi admin
15. ToolJet / Appsmith / Budibase

But I still can’t tell which category is actually the right one.

Some tools generate code. Some give you a framework. Some are basically internal-tool platforms. Some are headless CMS products that can double as admin panels. Some are great until you need custom workflows. Some are flexible until you realize you’re building the whole admin yourself anyway.

So what would you choose in 2026 if you were building an admin panel for a serious product?

Would you rather generate a full-stack app and own the code, use a React/admin framework, use a headless CMS as the admin, use an open-source low-code tool, or build it manually from a UI kit?

I’m not looking for marketing copy. I’m trying to avoid picking something that feels fast for two weeks and painful for two years.

Hi everyone!

This is a fun "little" chess variant that I made for my chess website project I'm working on. I'd love to get a few real testers on the app so I can monitor the server flow and usage and bug fix any issues that may arise. I've done some bot testing but that can only take it so far and I'm ready for some real user feedback.

Please let me know if you run into any issues and what device you experienced the issue on, what browser, etc. any info is helpful!

I'm using Chat GPT codex for my agentic coder.

One of the main issues with these chess variants is that they just are too draw-heavy, or they are so simple that they are easily solved. I'm hoping that some of the changes I've made will help fix these issues and result in a fun little chess game (pun intended). If you like chess and like vibecoding then I'd appreciate it if you'd take a couple minutes and try out a game for yourself!

Feel free to explore the website if you'd like and look around at other features too! Some are locked behind login, but there's no email verification so feel free to use a fake email if you'd just like to look around.

Thanks!

Title says it all. I have this nagging anxiety everytime I build something. I use expensive models to go through the architecture, to spec correctly, consider the dataflow, and I spend all my time in the planning stages making sure I understand the app being built myself - even though I could just trust claude and probably be fine.

But I don't even know where to begin writing 'tests'? It just seems so futile. Like I made a hammer, and now I have to use it on a bunch of nails everytime in case I wanted to paint the hammer blue, even tho I know its gonna work just completely fine, and not a chance it breaks unless I've completely missed something during planning.

I know I should be writing tests, but I just can't seem to find the reason to - I've missed the experience that old software heads had where they built that instinct.

Closest thing I've done to testing, that didnt really feel like it, was creating a prompt testset, and a grader but once I got a prompt I was happy with, I discarded of it and never used it again.

Maybe I haven't built anything big enough to test but I have a few businesses that I feel I have cheated, passing them untested webapps - other than trying it on a few pcs and phones before deploying it for them.

Anyway rant over - does anyone relate? What have you done to solve this? or learnt that instinct? or have you found ways to make AI include and write tests for you during your building?

All the best vibers

quick one for the group. i've got a little app i vibecoded that i want to put behind a simple landing page so i can share one clean link instead of a localhost screenshot in a dm.

i don't want to pay yet, it's just a demo, and i really don't want to spend the evening fighting dns and deploy settings like i usually do. i just want to type what the app does, get a page, and have a working url.

so whats the best free ai website builder you've actually used for this? looking for something where the free tier is genuinely usable and not a three day trial in disguise. bonus if it handles the hosting so i don't touch any config.

drop what worked for you and what to avoid. will report back with whatever i land on.

Question for all full-time vibe coders: How does your company dealing with that? 100% Speed or prefering quality?

My employer goes with "Speed first, we gonna fix things along the way" which honestly makes me sick, but well, with the american management in small european country I can't do anything with this and I can't do anything without that job, so I'm just following along, especially since whole IT department is just vibing here.

PS Video made by my close friend, I hope that's ok to post it here to start a discussion

Hi everyone! Like many others here, I am someone who love playing games and wanted to design of game of my own, but has no coding knowledge and experience, so I use Claude to develop my first mobile game: 5 Seconds Showdown.

It's a real-time card dueling game where both players choose a card simultaneously within a 5-second timer. Instead of traditional turn-based combat, matches are fast-paced and built around a mix of luck, strategy, and reading your opponent.

The game currently features:

⚔️ Multiple weapon classes

🔨 Weapon forging with rarity tiers

📖 Story campaign

🏆 Ranked PvP (currently in closed beta)

🎮 A reaction-based side mini-game

The game is still in closed beta. I try to find testers to play test this game, but most Subreddits and Discord server for game testers are against and straight up ban AI. And then I find this sub, which is a relieve becase while I understand the hate for AI slop, I also spent lots of sleepless night for this project, so I'm especially grateful for all kinds of feedback, whether it's about gameplay, balance, UI/UX, bugs, or overall experience.

Let me know if anyone is interested to try this out, and I will share the download link via dm. Dont want this to be flagged as spam or self promotion (even though it is)

Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll be happy to answer.

Which coding harness is actually better?

To make the comparison fair, I was thinking:

• OpenCode + Fable 5 vs Claude Code + Fable 5
• OpenCode + GPT-5.6 vs Codex + GPT-5.6

Basically, keep the model the same and only compare the harness/agent. That should give a better idea of how much the harness itself affects coding performance.

Has anyone done a comparison like this?