Vibe Coding Won’t Save You

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Vibe coding is everywhere now. Twitter, Hacker News, LinkedIn, Startup Circles — founders are building MVPs by just prompting ChatGPT or Claude and shipping in hours. And let’s be honest — it looks cool. You type a few lines, boom: a landing page, a form, an API, maybe even user auth.

But there’s a hidden layer people don’t talk about.

Some believe it’s the future of development. Others call it an illusion that breaks under real-world pressure. And if you’re not a software engineer? You’re walking into a minefield.

I’m saying this as someone who came into tech without a CS degree. I started learning to code in 2020, pre-LLMs. Then I saw the rise of AI coding assistants, and I’ve used them heavily since.

Here’s the truth:
LLMs are great if you already know what you’re doing. They’re not great at teaching you why something works — or what better patterns exist.

Here are a few things I’ve seen first-hand:

1. LLMs Don’t Care About Project Structure
They won’t tell you why your API logic shouldn’t sit in every single page. Or why separating logic helps when you scale. They might randomly generate a utils folder, then forget it exists in the next prompt.

2. State Management? Good Luck
Once your app has more than 2–3 screens…