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by utopiah 7 days ago
> Are there any popular/successful vibe-coded games?

Fair question... I'd even go as far as broadening the scope :

Are there any popular/successful vibe-coded anything?

And by popular/successful I don't mean bought Github stars from other GenAI/LLMs related project as it's been a demonstrated practice https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigatio... for that specific domain now.
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jvanderbot 7 days ago
At some point in the apparently-impending "software is free" era, s/w stops being a product that has to be "popular" and starts being mostly bespoke. One possible future is that your machine does you want because you have a local agent molding it into the right form all the time.

Bit of a stretch, but possible. I've had agents write 100x more code for me _to be productive at things_ than they do for new projects I want to sell/share.

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microgpt 7 days ago
OpenClaw is popular - or is it? I don't actually know anyone who uses it.

Claude Code is popular, and is vibecoded.

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swiftcoder 7 days ago
If the only successful uses of vibecoding are more tools for vibecoding... Feels a bit like the snake eating its own tail.

That said, I don't think that is actually the case - there is a small and growing percentage of LLM-written code in pretty much every piece of tech I have insight into the internals of.

Though not in the sense of "implement GT6"

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utopiah 7 days ago
Not sure if my last comment was clear but I meant specifically not related to GenAI/LLMs. So no harness, no model tooling, etc. I mean end-user used software. I don't mean that this topic isn't interesting per se, only that (as the article pointed out) it's been "gamed" so much popularity there isn't really meaningful anymore.
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Aperocky 7 days ago
Depend on your definition of vibe coding - if it means code came out from a LLM vs. keyboard, you can bet that most updated software had some of it now.

But if you mean "Built me a GTA6", the answer is zero, because LLMs simply does not have that kind of capability.

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yieldcrv 7 days ago
yes, there are

no, most won’t burn themselves by publicly linking them as vibe coded

there is that ny times article about the peptide guy and lovable showcase by revenue though. I guess next up are even more disqualifiers about the term “successful”, but my outstanding question is who cares? What does convincing you buy, an Anthropic pro subscription at best?

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pennaMan 7 days ago
don't ask how the sausage is made
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