What does ‘vibe coding’ help you ship?
Hey PH family. 🐈
Been part of this community for years now, and if there's one place to talk with builders, this is it.
So, "vibe coding"... it's absolutely everywhere right now, right? Feels like a new tool drops every week.
What does it actually do for you all? Like, in your day-to-day:
Is it best for rapid prototyping, like getting a UI idea out of your head and onto a screen in minutes?
Do you use it to build and ship actual micro-tools or landing pages that serve a real purpose?
Has it become your "code playground" for experimenting with AI APIs or new libraries stress-free?
Or is it something totally different?
Just a few of us trying to cut through the noise and understand what this trend actually means for the people building stuff.
What's your real, no-BS take on 'vibe coding'? What makes it click for you?
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For me it helps me to do the research, and ui/ux work that I couldn't do well before, I'm a backend dev, I find frontend dev work really confusing.
Now i just prompt to get a feature list, then generate the ux wireframe then the frontend hi def mockups and essentially iterate util I am happy then I go ahead and build it out, definitely lowered the barrier to shipping more products for me!!
NMTV
For me, it’s about collapsing the distance between a joke and a functional product. I just used vibe coding (Lovable + Gemini/Antigravity) to build a synchronized 90s MTV simulator as a birthday gift for my wife. It’s perfect for rapid prototyping—getting that 'vibe' and UI right in minutes.
However, the 'no-BS' take is that you still need a dev's eye. I use it for 80% of the heavy lifting, but I still jump into VS Code to polish the logic and handle performance edge cases. It’s not just a playground; it’s a force multiplier for builders.
I'm addicted to vibe coding, There is a lot of haters on Vibe Coding lately. Fact is I have no business building things I can now build that developers and engineers were the only ones with the skills to pull off. That barrier is gone now. I don't care if the dev hard heads call it AI slop, it works for what I need and i'm 10x as productive in my real world job than I was 6 months ago. 80% good enough and built in 2 days is a game change.
The magic isn’t in the output — it’s in killing bad ideas before they waste real time.