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> 5 years of skepticism that has repeatedly been wrong.

Can you point to any app with scale that has been vibe coded?

That wasn't the take. The take is generally, "glorified next token predictor" quality LLM skepticism takes have been repeatedly proven wrong. See the original Cursor, Devin, etc announcement threads.

More broadly, its unfortunate that vibe coding is so overloaded a term. - Yes, product managers with 0 coding expertise are contributing code in FAANG. - Yes, experienced engineers are "vibe coding" to great success. - Yes, folks with 0 years of experience were building simple calculators 2 years ago and are now building games, complex website, etc, just by prompting. Where will this go in another two years?

One needs look no further than kiro - Amazons own code editor thats being used extensively internally.

Folks bemoaning vibe coding are simply suffering from lack of imagination.

What was the take then? What has repeatedly been "proven wrong?" The original author's point was that it was a great tool for rapidly spinning up a prototype that quickly fell apart at any kind of scale or complexity. I've seen this pop up over and over, and in my own usage of it as well. They don't seem able to (yet) produce anything purely "vibe" coded at any kind of real complexity or scale. If it's happening, I'm extraordinarily interested in it, because I have a lot of projects I could get off the ground to make some additional money. So what apps are they?

Cloudflare's Oauth library probably handles some scale.

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider

It's not vibe coded, though. "Vibe coding" means taking the AI's code with no review at all. Whereas I carefully reviewed the AI's output for workers-oauth-provider.

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