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by Arkhaine_kupo 247 days ago
> Do you think a non-programmer could realistically build a full app using vibe coding?

For personal or professional use?

If you want to make it public I would say 0% realistic. The bugs, security concerns, performance problems etc you would be unable to fix are impossible to enumerate.

But even if you had a simple loging and kept people's email and password, you can very easily have insecure dbs, insecure protections against simple things like mysqliinjections etc.

You would not want to be the face of "vibe coder gives away data of 10k users"
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KingOfMyRoom 247 days ago
Ideally, I want this to grow into a proper startup. I’m starting solo for now, but as things progress, I’d like to bring in more people. I’m not a tech, product or design person, but AI gives me hope that I can at least get an MVP out and onboard a few early users.

For auth, I’ll be using Supabase, and for the MVP stage I think Lovable should be good enough to build and test with maybe a few hundred users. If there’s traction and things start working, that’s when I’d plan to harden the stack and get proper security and code reviews in place.

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Arkhaine_kupo 245 days ago
One of the issues AI coding has, is that its in some ways very inhuman. The bugs that are introduced are very hard to pick up because humans wouldnt write it that way, hence they wouldnt make those mistakes.

If you then introduce other devs you have 2 paths, they either build on top of vibe coding, which is going to leave you vulnerable to those bugs and honestly make their life a misery as they are working on top of work that missed basic decisions that will help it grow. (Imagine a non architect built your house, the walls might be straight but he didnt know to level the floor, or to add the right concrete to support the weight of a second floor)

Or the other path is they rebuild your entire app correctly. With the only advantage of the MVP and the users showing some viability for the idea. But the time it will take to rewrite it means in a fast moving space like start ups someone can quickly overtake you.

Its a risky proposition that means you are not going to create a very adequate base for the people you might hire.

I would still recommend against it, thinking that AI is more like WebMD, it can help someone who is already a doctor but it will confuse, and potentially hurt those without enough training to know what to look for.

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