JetBrains Thinkrail(github.com)
182 points by hmokiguess | 145 comments
GitHub repository for JetBrains Thinkrail, an open-source lightweight IDE for vibe coding with the pi agent that customises itself to the user's workflow.
#vibe-coding on Hacker News
42 stories tagged vibe-coding, newest first.
Challenge Is Gone(blog.alxgsv.com)
46 points by alxgsv | 84 comments
Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.
Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
39 points by stanislavb | 12 comments
Hacker News discussion post noting SaaSHub's product graveyard data shows median software product lifespan dropping from about 4 years to 1.5 years in 2026.
Show HN: AI-built browser games, collected in one place(playgroundarcade.com)
12 points by richleigh | 0 comments
Playground Arcade, a directory of 700+ AI-built browser games sorted by genre, AI model and device support, with reviews and creator credits.
Code is clay now(albertodenia.com)
219 points by albertodenia | 141 comments
Blog essay by iOS developer Alberto Denia arguing agentic coding makes code malleable like clay, contrasting hands-on 'artisan' and automated 'factory' workflows.
Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher(respawnfirst.com)
290 points by starkparker | 292 comments
RespawnFirst gaming news article claiming the Steam client now outperforms Epic Games' new launcher, which it describes as vibe coded.
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones(shokunin.studio)
105 points by riffraff | 118 comments
Shokunin Studio blog post examining attempts by AI enthusiasts to create vibe-coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe Photoshop.
Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well(kotaku.com)
69 points by astlouis44 | 60 comments
Kotaku news article on AI vibe-coded web browser ports of decompiled games like Halo: CE, GTA: Vice City, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run.
What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe(tedium.co)
23 points by speckx | 29 comments
Tedium article examining ArtCraft's vibe-coded remakes of creative apps and what they suggest about Adobe and Creative Cloud.
Serverless Horrors $10,811.41(serverlesshorrors.com)
33 points by 7777777phil | 11 comments
A ServerlessHorrors post by Andras Bacsai showing a $10,811.41 Cloudflare invoice tied to Durable Objects usage from vibe-coded software.
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities(quesma.com)
376 points by stared | 187 comments
A Quesma blog post by Piotr Migdał describing how Claude Opus 5.5 built an interactive visualization of Calvino's Invisible Cities from a single prompt over six hours.
Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure(andreklein.net)
51 points by samtheDamned | 65 comments
Blog post on andreklein.net about vibecoding a Photoshop-like app and dealing with time and pressure; captured page shows a Cloudflare verification screen.
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it(railcode.dev)
98 points by yakkomajuri | 53 comments
A Railcode founder's blog post about how using coding agents to build the company website made him more interested in design and produced a designer-quality result.
Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)(gptbeyond.com)
25 points by kdautaj | 6 comments
Ekselio is an LLM-driven web app that builds finance analysis workflows as visual canvases running SQL locally in the browser, with QuickBooks, FRED and stock data connectors.
Vibe Coding Production Kit – a production workflow for AI coding agents(github.com)
3 points by Moeeryani | 0 comments
GitHub repository for Vibe Coding Production Kit, a workflow and set of resources for using AI coding agents to build production software.
Explaining to business people why building software is still hard(manager.dev)
41 points by fagnerbrack | 29 comments
A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides recounting a hackathon built with Lovable to explain to business people why building software is still hard.
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)
463 points by benbreen | 222 comments
Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.
The Tower Keeps Rising(lucumr.pocoo.org)
517 points by cdrnsf | 239 comments
Blog post by Armin Ronacher using Bruegel's Tower of Babel as a metaphor for how vibecoded software changes unpredictably and the shared understanding that technological progress depends on.
Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode(scottwillsey.com)
516 points by speckx | 218 comments
A blog post by Scott Willsey explaining how to build and ship Mac and iOS apps, including via vibe coding, without ever opening Xcode.
ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2(zcode.z.ai)
484 points by chvid | 322 comments
Landing page for ZCode 3.0, a desktop AI coding agent tool by Z.ai optimized for the GLM-5.2 model, with download links for macOS.
Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark(twitter.com)
579 points by mmunj | 253 comments
X post by Papermark founder Marc Seitz accusing Corgi's Nico Laqua of copying Papermark's open source and enterprise-licensed code for a data room product.
I'm going back to writing code by hand(blog.k10s.dev)
890 points by dropbox_miner | 558 comments
A developer's devlog post explaining why they are returning to writing code by hand after experimenting with fully AI-driven vibe-coding of a project.
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like(simonwillison.net)
728 points by e12e | 823 comments
Simon Willison blog post recapping a Heavybit podcast appearance, reflecting that vibe coding and responsible agentic engineering are converging in his own work.
The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok(bramcohen.com)
541 points by drob518 | 454 comments
Bram Cohen blog post arguing that the leaked Claude source code's poor quality reflects vibe coding dogfooding taken to cult-like extremes.
So where are all the AI apps?(answer.ai)
330 points by tanelpoder | 305 comments
Answer.AI blog post examining PyPI package creation and update data to look for evidence that AI coding tools have increased software output.
Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?(read.technically.dev)
357 points by itunpredictable | 354 comments
A Technically newsletter essay comparing vibe coding with the maker movement, asking whether vibe-coded apps are throwaway projects or lasting value.
I'm helping my dog vibe code games(calebleak.com)
1060 points by cleak | 347 comments
Caleb Leak's blog post describing how he set up a system letting his dog 'vibe code' video games using AI coding tools.
AI makes you boring(marginalia.nu)
548 points by speckx | 306 comments
A Marginalia weblog post arguing that vibe-coded, AI-aided Show HN projects tend to be boring because their authors have spent little time thinking about the problem.
Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning(arthurcnops.blog)
452 points by acnops | 376 comments
Blog post by Arthur Cnops analyzing Show HN data, arguing post volume has surged while engagement per post has dropped amid vibecoded projects.
Breaking the spell of vibe coding(fast.ai)
367 points by arjunbanker | 293 comments
A fast.ai essay by Rachel Thomas arguing that vibe coding resembles a sinister variant of flow akin to gambling, and that human creativity and thinking still matter.
DoNotNotify is now Open Source(donotnotify.com)
353 points by awaaz | 47 comments
Announcement page stating that DoNotNotify, an Android app for controlling notifications, is now open source with code on GitHub.
Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't(tech.lgbt)
410 points by JadedBlueEyes | 161 comments
A Mastodon thread criticizing a Cloudflare blog post claiming a Matrix homeserver on Cloudflare Workers, arguing the code is AI-generated and incomplete.
Your app subscription is now my weekend project(rselbach.com)
501 points by robteix | 345 comments
Blog post by Roberto Selbach about replacing paid app subscriptions like Wispr Flow by vibecoding his own tools, such as a dictation app called Jabber.
Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients(archaeologist.dev)
338 points by codesparkle | 225 comments
Blog post by Adam Thalhammer arguing Anthropic made a major business mistake by cutting off third-party clients from Claude Code, tracing the rise of terminal coding agents.
LLM Year in Review(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
324 points by swyx | 121 comments
Andrej Karpathy's blog post reviewing major developments in large language models during 2025, dated December 19, 2025.
If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?(stephenramsay.net)
583 points by sramsay | 544 comments
Blog post by Stephen Ramsay arguing about whether AI-assisted vibe coding should target C rather than higher-level languages.
Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy(github.com)
325 points by jackdoe | 240 comments
GitHub repository pico2-swd-riscv, a library for debugging the RISC-V cores of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 over SWD, shared as a vibe-coding case study.
Vibe engineering(simonwillison.net)
576 points by janpio | 612 comments
Simon Willison blog post proposing the term "vibe engineering" for experienced engineers using LLMs and coding agents while staying accountable for their code.
Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app(molecheck.info)
395 points by sungam | 239 comments
A web quiz app built by a dermatologist where users view skin lesion images and swipe to indicate whether they are concerned, tracking their score.
Vibe code is legacy code(blog.val.town)
653 points by simonw | 381 comments
Val Town blog post by Steve Krouse arguing that vibe-coded software, where developers ignore the code, is effectively legacy code nobody understands.
Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others(drawafish.com)
878 points by hallak | 224 comments
Drawafish.com is a web toy where users draw a right-facing fish on a canvas and release it to swim in a shared tank with others' drawings.
An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force(aftermath.site)
394 points by Doches | 362 comments
An Aftermath article about how generative AI tools like Midjourney and vibe coding are affecting video game developers and artists, described as a demoralizing force.