If you're anything like me, you think vibe coding is the most overhyped term in software development right now.
Not because it doesn't work. But because most people doing it are using Claude like a fancy autocomplete. They paste an error message. They ask for "a login page." They copy the output, watch it break, and go back to the chat feeling like they must be doing something wrong.
They're not wrong. They're just treating the most powerful agentic tool in history like a search engine.
Here's the reality. Most developers vibe coders, indie hackers, and even experienced engineers use AI in a way that guarantees mediocre output. They start every session from scratch. They describe what they want without explaining what they have. And when Claude produces code that doesn't fit, they blame the model.
I'm not here to talk down on anyone. I've shipped more spaghetti with Claude than I care to admit. But the pattern of developers trying to build with AI and hitting the same walls, over and over, holds true and there's a reason most of them never make it past a localhost preview.
