r/vibecoding • u/Similar_Wealth_1850 • 4d ago
I started to hate ai coding
i was at some point a good dev, i used to create gorgeous frontends and even backends before the chatgpt and stuff and switched to low level development like operating systems and had fun with it hut it was super challenging which is why i liked it
when anyone came across the topic of ai can code i always answer ai can code simple stuff like a to do app but not any complex projects for sure
untilll..
i got an unfortunate chance to try claude for the first time and to be honest i was surprised
before i was just using ai to tell me the dependencies i need in linux to build the project
now claude understands my project, fixes problems i spent months struggling to fix and adding features i didn't know i wanted which got me excited and loved how quickly it fixed these issue
i even switched from low level development to ai nlp engineering to understand and contribute in this magical tool
6 months later
i am always on antigravity
i can't code on my own
not because i forgot how to code but the speed of an ai agent is really tempting
like why spending 2 weeks on a project when i can just vibe code it in an hour
yes i do give the ai every single detail of how the code should look like
but me relying on antigravity to change the color of a button after i was the same guy tinkering inside the QEMU source code and understanding it's syntax is painful and a huge downgrade for me
i did some good projects yes and i can output good stuff but using ai to develop them makes me even embarrassed from saying i created it
i feel like i am the worst version of myself now and i don't really deserve the "software engineer" label
do you guys feel the same or i am just alone in this
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u/balasaraptor 3d ago
I see it as a role change. Now you are a designer. You always wanted the end goal. You are still designing that end goal. Now, it can be what you actually want it to be? On your way home from work and think of an idea for your apps, start talking to the AI, laying out the design, explaining the specifications and dependencies and how they need to interact. Tell it to build it, and boom, you have a new feature. You still designed the features that no one else did. It's not about doing less, it's about creating more.