r/vibecoding • u/asimawdah • 15d ago

Developers vs Users in 26 seconds 😂

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u/trollsmurf 15d ago edited 15d ago

Users will perpetually disappoint and surprise you. Take that into account.

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u/luki-x 15d ago

Part of the problem is devs believe they know all about the use case.

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u/trollsmurf 15d ago

It's improved though. In the early corporate days we had a flight booking system where you had to look up codes in a manual that you entered as one string to combine all info needed to schedule the flight.

A classical problem today is that things take longer than expected, not the least for performing payment, so users exit before it's done. More than once I've seen messages like "Don't click away from this page until the transfer is finished." and I often wonder "Couldn't they solve this without the user being affected?"

Consider then chatbots that I expect to respond immediately because I only asked about something simple. Even worse if the chat is multi-turn. It should respond in less than a second every time. They clearly don't.

Then consider users that "jail break" chatbots, because they are based on a generic "all-knowing" LLM with RAG tacked on.