I gave it a serious try for a side project. Entirely vibed from system design to backend, db, frontend and all sort of ci/cd hacks.

I ended up binning the fully vibed version and started again with a design of my own. This mostly because the final product wasn’t really usable.

Then I heavily modified the backend.

In the last days I finished a major refactoring of the frontend.

I’m now in the situation where the project is 20% vibe coded.

If I were to start again it would possibly be less than that. Just because in the process I learnt as much react I need to do things myself.

This was using a mix of gpt4, claude, gemini, lovable…basically anything with a free tier to squeeze free tokens from