people are looking at it the wrong way
most vibe-coded stuff is pretty janky, at the very least, and that's obvious. unless you can get on the wheel and drive, it won't get very far on its own.
but that honestly does not matter because, to be fair, 99.99% of the vibe coded things that we all make.. will see no use at all
and that's perfectly fine because most of the time that isn't the point; the actual point of vibe coding is in the MAKING OF THE THING, it's not really in the using it, it's pure joy, it doesn't have to drive numbers, it doesn't have to have stickiness, it doesn't have to grow…
it just exists and you've had fun building something
and a lot of us lost this when we stopped playing with legos, because the point was in the building, in the joy of thinking about something and building it, and yeah the car didn't move, the dragon didn't fly, and the soldiers didn't shoot anything
but that was not important whatsoever because the fun was in thinking about it, in trying to build whatever you were able to, as close to your idea as possible and with whatever you had at the time and... that was always enough and it always felt enough; you didn't care if your sister didn’t like it or if your cousin didn't use it
hell, i didn't even care if I ended up playing with it at all, or if i even remembered it 30 minutes later because the fun had been had already
vibecoding is exactly the same feeling and exactly the same point, you think of some stuff, you think it's cool, and you go at it and if it's useful then that's dope but if it isn't then that's also dope. In all honesty, even if it's useful i probably still wouldn't use any of the little shits i've been making because.. yeah the polish isn't there and for most of the things i actually use.. i want them to be clean, and reliable, and polished
and guess what, cleaning, making things reliable and polishing them, to me, is boring as hell and I ain't got time for it, I'll pay for a service built by people that get paid to do the boring parts and I'll focus on enjoying using the tool
and when i'm doing, i'll go back to building cars that don't drive, dragons that don't fly, and soldiers that don't shoot