I'm a heavy user of Claude Code and I use it like a coding assistant.
How well you can manage a development team in real life has strong correlations on how much value you get out of an LLM based coding assistant.
If you can't describe what success looks like, expect people to read your mind, and get angry at validating questions, then you will have problems both with coding assistants and leading teams of developers.
If you're just letting the coding assistant do its thing, uncritically, and committing whatever results, then you're vibe coding.
It sounds like you're not vibe coding. That's good. No need to throw away a useful term (even if it's a weird, gen-Z sounding term) that describes a particular (poor) way to use a LLM.
The point that I'm probably missing (and others) is that we associate the phrase 'Vibe Coding' with 'Using an LLM to help with coding' and they're not the same.
Maybe the critics of Vibe Coding need to remember that all users of LLMs for coding support aren't about to regret their life choices.
Prompting an LLM is definitely a different skillset from actually coding, but just "describing it better" isn't good enough.
my prompts have gotten less and less. It's the hooks and subagents, and using the tools that matter far more.
This is a thread about claude code. the other LLms don't matter. Nothing ever blatantly ignores my instructions in claude code. that's a thing of the past.
Of course, not using claude code, for sure. But all my instructions are followed with my setup. That really isn't an issue for me personally anymore.
Last weekend I did nothing but have different ideas battle it out against each other, with me selecting the most successful one, and repeating.
And now, my experience is no longer the same. Before last weekend, i had the same experience you are describing.
Did you use the one suggested here https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents or have you created custom ones?
Last weekend I ran head to head tests of agents against each other with a variety of ideas, and selected the best one, and did it again. It has caused me to have a very specific subagent system, and I have an agent who creates those.