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title: "Vibe coding is boring"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/vibe-coding-is-boring-ugxv5z1se
source_url: https://cassidoo.co/post/vibe-coding-yawn/
type: article
source: "Cassidy's blog"
author: "Cassidy Williams"
published: 2025-12-14T00:39:16.477Z
updated: 2025-12-14T00:39:36.904Z
tags: ["ai", "github", "productivity"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 745
comments: 120
language: en
---

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# Vibe coding is boring

**[Cassidy's blog](https://daily.dev/sources/cassidoo)** · [@cassidoo](https://daily.dev/cassidoo) · 3 min read · 745 upvotes · 120 comments

## Summary

Vibe coding with AI agents is effective for shipping side projects quickly, but removes the satisfaction and learning that comes from hands-on development. While tools like GitHub Copilot and Spec Kit can automate implementation from specifications, watching agents write code is tedious and lacks the joy of problem-solving. The author reserves AI-assisted coding for projects where only the final output matters, preferring to manually build applications where the tech stack or implementation details are interesting.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 104 upvotes

> Vibe coding gives you that dopamine dose, just like Instagram and YouTube shorts. You can get some things done. This easy reward can be boring. However, more importantly, vibe coding can be _dangerous_ for your professional development in the long run. You cannot evolve without learning, and you cannot learn without going through things yourself, instead of outsourcing the outcome to an LLM agent. Of course, you can be satisfied with how far your LLM agent takes you, and there is nothing wrong with that. But for those people who want to understand how things work and get involved in bigger...

**@augustaugust** · 54 upvotes

> Counterpoint: no it's not

**@johnlowiet** · 15 upvotes

> I agree that it is boring in the sense that you lose the intellectual challenge of figuring out a complex problem and getting the code to work.

**@idoshamun** · 14 upvotes

> it's definitely much more boring than coding but hype of getting things done makes up for it. All of a sudden I can also do heavily designed ticket with no designers with lots of interactions

**@konradpsiuk** · 8 upvotes

> I’m not sure if I would call it boring personally but rather draining. It provides this empty excitment that casue this weird, hangover-like feeling. Very negative in my opinion.

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