💻 Vibe Coding – More Than Just Aesthetic, It’s a Mindset
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Lately, I’ve been exploring the concept of vibe coding – that flow state where the environment, mood, and tech stack align so well that writing code feels like creating art.
To me, vibe coding isn’t about fancy editors or lo-fi beats (though that helps 😉).
It’s about building in a way that feels natural, expressive, and efficient.
Sometimes it's HTML/CSS/JS with no build tools. Other times it’s AI-assisted prototyping in real-time.
It’s fast. It’s minimal. And honestly, it helps me ship more and stress less.
What I’d love to know from you:
What’s your idea of vibe coding?
Do you believe tools and aesthetics impact how you think and build?
Or is it all just a distraction from “real dev work”?
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minimalist phone: creating folders
I cannot find my own definition, but for me, vibecoding is something that helps me learn coding/programming :)
minimalist phone: creating folders
@sarthak_k AI really helps me understand the code :)
According to me, vibecoding is something that helps a marketer like me to code a whole app without going through much struggle
I view it as letting thr coding agent provide a lot of input as a "partner." The vibe coders are architects; the coding agents are construction workers. The vibe coder trusts the Ai to carry out a lot of the work
Use AI and do whatever you can imagine. ahhhhh!!!!
It's like you've hired a full-stack developer free of cost that too work without any hesitation.
I started vibe coding a small but ambitious product - a personal web search agent. A crawler/scraper that uses your browser and LLMs to find data for any objective you set. This is not easy but it has been about 10 days and I am amazed at the results. The tool works even though it needs lot of improvement in URL handling, crawler and data gathering logic but this is no easy task even for experienced engineers.
I took the challenge to entirely vibe code this product, GitHub workflows, landing page. I have barely written 100 lines of code in the entire codebase of maybe 2000 - 3000 lines of Rust. The HTML cleaner is just so detailed, I would have cried to write that myself.
My aim is to be able to scrape logged in pages too, allow users to build a local memory of their entire digital communication - like a marketing/sales person would need. This is not an easy product so I guess we will see how it goes.
I think vibe coding is allowing me so much time to spend of finding users - something I have struggled with a lot. It is easy for engineers to get comfortable with code and not focus on users, marketing or sales. Once the workflow is set with vibe coding, the software quality does not have to suffer. This is still something I am learning and improving.