--- title: "I'm in Vibe Code Hell" url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-in-vibe-code-hell-24sk6snvv source_url: https://blog.boot.dev/education/vibe-code-hell/ type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2025-10-10T16:56:30.247Z updated: 2025-10-11T18:00:55.192Z tags: ["ai", "career", "productivity"] reading_time: 11 upvotes: 465 comments: 62 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I'm in Vibe Code Hell **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 11 min read · 465 upvotes · 62 comments ## Summary The coding education landscape has shifted from "tutorial hell" (passive video consumption) to "vibe code hell" where learners over-rely on AI coding assistants. While students can now build projects faster with tools like Cursor and Claude, they often fail to develop deep understanding of how software works. AI tools can be valuable for learning when used as Socratic tutors rather than code generators, but the sycophantic nature of LLMs and their tendency to agree with users creates new learning challenges. Effective learning still requires discomfort and independent problem-solving, whether that means turning off tutorial videos or disabling AI autocomplete. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 67 upvotes > Vibe code hell is definitely a thing. The industry still doesn't understand the impact of vibe coding on the new generation and how it will affect their ability to learn and dive into complex problems. It's a tool that must be used with care. It's not a substitute to learning which many thinks **@mindfultatiana** · 41 upvotes > I'm starting to see the issue isn't AI or any particular tool we have, it's people's avoidance of learning. I'm sure when people started coding in C those writing Assembly thought they were lazy and would lose major concepts in how code works. I'm sure when Stack Overflow became popular people assumed programmers again were lazy and depended on answers more than reading documentation. People always want to blame the tool instead of the reality that most people don't want to learn how something works. They just want to build something. And on the other hand you have programmers that understand... **@devdailyadmin** · 20 upvotes > Vibe coding doesnt exist. Its called shit coding, where you allow AI to scramble your apps code like some eggs. AI agents are good for 2 things and 2 things only. Its for creating a super basic templates and maybe, just maybe assisting you in some super basic app for MVP only. > > Other than that its a useless thing. I tried multiple times to make some apps and anything after initial app creation (just a boilerplate) it fails miserably. You constantly have to review the code, it adds unnecessary logic, if you amend smth, it will not remove unused code etc. Its just bad.. Ofc when you have 0... **@henriquedeassunoclementino** · 6 upvotes > A JR developer on my team finished a task that should have taken at least 4 hours in 30 minutes. I analyzed the PR and it was clear that he used "vibe coding" to get it done. There were pieces of code that shouldn't have been deleted that were, and texts that weren't even described in the task that were changed. He simply threw the Jira ticket at the AI, hit send, and accepted what came back. Long story short, what was supposed to be a 4-hour job turned into 2 days of work. > > Please, if you are a JR DEV, we are NOT expecting you to finish tasks quickly. We want you to learn and finish them in... **@akkitto** · 5 upvotes > Very well written and content-wise good article. > > It offers a lot of inspiration to continue thinking about the topic and I would like to chime in on one aspect mentioned. > > I agree that, platforms like Stack Overflow were "*too* good" at telling people, when they were wrong, especially when most of the time, they were only partially wrong, yet they were told, as if their whole life were wrong... Which is why I never indulged too much as an answer giver there, because I found the system counter productive. > > The platform is way too strict. Many of the hardcore always-online moderators there are... --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-in-vibe-code-hell-24sk6snvv)