Vibe coding is mad depressing

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Vibe Coding is Mad Depressing 11 Dec, 2025 I’ve been in the mobile development industry for almost 15 years, and this AI/LLM era might be the worst. My work are mostly freelance, gigs, hourly, milestones, and I could say 90% of my experience are greenfield projects. I don’t have any apps on my own, I make a living coding apps for others. Before AIBack in the day, during a client kickoff they usually hand me a document with a UI prototype and a list of features. Then, you start from scratch, File - New Project. git init that shit and you’re on your way. Everything was calm, clients just wanted a weekly or monthly feedback because they know how hard mobile development is you know. No pressure. You can focus on the great work, clean code, proper variable naming, proper git commit, all that stuffs. In 2-3 months you get an alpha or beta build out, and clients are very happy. They can’t believe there idea, has now transformed into something they can play with. Start of AI eraFast forward to today, or maybe it started around 2-3 years ago. Nothing wrong with it at first. Like any freelancer, I try to adopt with the latest trends. At first it was just code snippets. Hey! I asked AI for this code, do you think this will work? I think you should use it. Okay, so this non-technical person is sending me codes now. I mostly reply with It’s alright I got some working code blocks that worked in production perfectly fine. Thanks though! But, then this code snippets get larger and larger as time goes on. I'm thankful for this suggestions of course. But, it's just additional work when you're coding and you get this AI source code and then you have to think on how to merge this code with a different coding style and variable names into your codebase. Vibe Coding eraThe first clues started when a client, who I thought was a software developer, starts merging his own code through the main branch, without warning. No pull request, just straight git push --force origin main. As I started...