I bought into the whole vibe coding hype completely. The marketing made it sound like natural language was the new programming language. I have been sitting on this idea for a niche community website for years but never had the money for a real developer. So I spun up the AI tools and started prompting. I had a ChatGPt account so I was like hell yeah.

At first it honestly felt like magic. Within an hour I had a homepage and a login screen. I felt like a genius. But then I needed specific styling stuff and the whole thing fell apart. The AI started hallucinating variables that did not exist. It would fix the profile picture bug but then break the entire navigation menu. I asked it to revert the changes and it just deleted half my CSS.

I spent four nights in a row just copy pasting error logs back and forth. The vibe died really fast when I realized I had built a frankenstein monster I could not maintain. It wasn’t empowering it was humiliating. I realized I was just an idiot shouting at a text box expecting it to be a software engineer.

I cancelled the hosting yesterday. The site is gone and I am not trying again. It just proved to me that unless you actually know the code you are just asking a hallucinating robot to guess for you.