After a week of using Vibe Coding, I'm no longer fascinated by it.

Author: Haotian

After a week of using Vibe Coding, I created an AI-powered RSS feed website to replace my previous paid app with a poor user experience. It was quite satisfying. However, during this process, I also gained a new, "demystified" understanding of Vibe Coding, which I'd like to share:

1) Vibe Coding is essentially an efficiency-enhancing tool; it's multiplicative rather than additive. For "super individuals" who already possess product thinking, logical abilities, and even some programming foundation, it can transform one person into a team, greatly expanding their capabilities.

But ultimately, it's just an enhancement skill, not a survival skill. Understanding Vibe Coding won't automatically transform you from an ordinary job into a high-level executive at a large company with a million-dollar annual salary, and not understanding Vibe Coding won't necessarily leave you behind in the future.

2) Vibe Coding lowers the barrier to entry, but it doesn't increase the upper limit of capabilities. For example, in the process of building an RSS reader, it's initially amazing—a single command can produce a usable interface. However, adding complex requirements later on becomes troublesome. For instance, to detect the working status of RSS sources and automatically deduplicate them, or to connect to backend storage data and optimize the structure, you'll find it provides a bunch of seemingly professional but obviously buggy questions. The AI ​​will jump back and forth between several seemingly complex but actually unsolvable solutions, burning your tokens. In the end, you'll find that an experienced programmer can solve it with a few lines of code and some environment configuration. 3) Vibe Coding's tool forms iterate very quickly, so there's no need to invest time learning them; initially, you copied and pasted code for the AI ​​to handle, but now the IDE directly embeds the AI ​​into the interface. In the future, even frontend, backend, and environment configuration may become foolproof. If you learn to write sophisticated prompts and some practical skills at a certain stage, these skills may become useless with a major platform update. 4) Vibe Coding isn't a savior for many; it can actually be a crisis. After completing this RSS project, I started to find various problems with its reading experience. For example, how often are RSS feeds updated? What happens if they become invalid? How much of the original text detail should the AI ​​summary retain? How should the content from multiple information sources be ordered? How can my reading experience be optimized? See? A bunch of questions arise. But solving these problems has almost nothing to do with coding ability; it requires a clearer understanding of product and aesthetics. As the saying goes, when the cost of code generation approaches zero, the value of the code itself also becomes zero. Therefore, the real deciding factor lies in whether one possesses product taste and the ability to close logical loops. Truly valuable programmers in the future will be a combination of product manager, architect, and designer; the era of simply relying on coding for a living may truly be over. 5) Vibe Coding is a double-edged sword in the Crypto field. The advantage is that Crypto natives' learning ability and research drive allow them to use and master this skill more quickly than the average person, building their own data analysis platforms, independently analyzing transactions, and trying AI Trading logic. However, it also attracts a large influx of people who don't understand the underlying blockchain, using AI to generate a bunch of code that appears to work on the surface but is actually riddled with hidden problems. That's all. Finally, to sum it up, Vibe Coding isn't revolutionary; it's essentially an efficiency tool. It's the same principle as how people have used Excel macros, Photoshop actions, and Notion templates over the years—those who understand it double their efficiency, and those who don't don't have much of a problem. Don't idolize it, but don't panic either. Just stay curious and try it out in moderation.