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by codingdave 311 days ago
No, because vibe coded apps break. And if you are not someone who can write your own tools without vibe coding, you'll hit a wall and stop doing it when they break on you. FWIW, even the link you got your inspiration from is not actually a single HTML page, it is a full node server with a front-end framework... that happens to only output a single HTML page.

I will grant that it is possible that AI-assisted coding will make people who are already software devs create their own tools more often. But not the vibe coding thing, no.

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I share your opinion about the quality of vibe coded apps. It's definitely not something you can pull off with 0 programming knowledge at this moment. I don't know how the quality of LLM written code will change in the future, but I do believe a lot of custom apps that basically just store and display data can already be easily one-shotted.

The more complex the app becomes, the harder it will be to maintain it with vibe coding. Personally I have chosen to just create specialed apps, that do one thing well, to avoid that complexity.