Vibe coding oh yea 🎶

Nowadays you’re a nobody if you don’t vibe code, so I started vibe coding an app for fun and to see really what this is about

I’ve been trying out Zed, even subscribed to their pro plan for a month, to see what could be done with it.

The project I choose to vibe code was a todo list, nothing too fancy, but enough to get me to have some fun, hopefully.

Well, the result? Yes, it was fun. Watching it code instead of you is cool, although you have to follow what it is doing to make sure it doesn’t derail. I think however that whatever derails you might get are mostly caused by lacklustre prompts to start with. But if you let it be and go with the flow, you end up with a (maybe working, maybe not) mess.

Still I got to a situation with a thousand rerenders and fetches from firebase (!)  and now if I want to salvage the work I kind of did,  I have to debug the vibe code, which sucks. You can’t vibe code out of this mess, it really needs a good look and some good luck.

One thing to be noted is that with Zed, even using the pro plan (20$ per month), you can see your “prompts” count skyrocket pretty quickly, so that in a few days of random vibe coding in the evening, I hit the limits, and you then have the option of going into “billable” territory (up to 20$ per month on top of the subscription), so there’s that, it’s something to be mindful about for sure.