Vibe coding apps taught me how hard real coding is
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By Ben Patterson
Published on March 16, 2026.
The author, known for his passion for creating useful apps with AI prompts, has written about how difficult real coding is. He spent six weeks building his own apps, four of which were unsuccessful. One of these apps was a graphical dashboard that tracks the status of my Docker Swarm setup, a “unified cluster” configuration that allows various software services to dynamically float from computer to another. Other projects included reverse-engineering OpenClaw, the viral agentic AI sensation that everyone in the AI industry is trying to copy. The author's biggest mistake was not developing a detailed blueprint of the finished product, but failing to delegate the necessary design decisions to seasoned software developers. He credits tools like Claude Code, Antigravity, and OpenAI’s Codex for their ability to write and debug code, but instead handed over the project to amateur vibe coders.
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