--- title: My Son has been Vibe coding | daily.dev description: A parent shares their child's frustration with AI-assisted coding ("vibe coding") when using ChatGPT for game development. The experience highlights how small... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-son-has-been-vibe-coding-bmxg6ez54 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My Son has been Vibe coding | daily.dev og:description: A parent shares their child's frustration with AI-assisted coding ("vibe coding") when using ChatGPT for game development. The experience highlights how small... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-son-has-been-vibe-coding-bmxg6ez54 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bMxG6ez54.png og:image:alt: My Son has been Vibe coding og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # My Son has been Vibe coding **[ThePrimeTime](https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen)** · 1 min read · 26 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A parent shares their child's frustration with AI-assisted coding ("vibe coding") when using ChatGPT for game development. The experience highlights how small code changes can unexpectedly break entire systems, illustrating the complexity of game programming and the limitations of AI code generation tools. ## 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. **@elmarchavez** · 3 upvotes > This goes to show the need for more good engineers. AI only gives you the code. The responsibility still lies on the developer to decide which code should stay and which code to cut off for the sake of progress. **@eslamlinux** · 1 upvotes >  **@harshitmanepally** · 0 upvotes > Do you think the ai in game dev is not performative so do you want it to be better or do you want your child to prepare the game without any ai? **@a\_meb\_a** · 0 upvotes > vibe coding, man I hate those words ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Bad Vibes Coding](https://daily.dev/posts/bad-vibes-coding-d9novql6h) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 1 comments - [From Programmer to Prompt Monkey: The Trap of Vibe Coding](https://daily.dev/posts/from-programmer-to-prompt-monkey-the-trap-of-vibe-coding-nxul05hrf) · Medium · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Vibe Coding is Mad Depressing](https://daily.dev/posts/vibe-coding-is-mad-depressing-kiqt7rmxs) · Hacker News · 36 upvotes · 8 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/my-son-has-been-vibe-coding-bmxg6ez54) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"My Son has been Vibe coding","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-son-has-been-vibe-coding-bmxg6ez54","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-son-has-been-vibe-coding-bmxg6ez54"},"datePublished":"2026-02-11T16:37:43.619Z","dateModified":"2026-02-11T16:38:00.592Z","description":"A parent shares their child's frustration with AI-assisted coding (\"vibe coding\") when using ChatGPT for game development. 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