Anyone else noticing how "vibe coded" has become the new internet insult?
I’ve been seeing a massive shift in how people talk about new apps and software lately. Every time someone launches a new product here , the comment section is immediately flooded with: "We shouldn't be using vibe coding." "This looks completely vibe coded." "Just another wrapper built on pure vibes." It feels like "vibe coded" has instantly turned into a massive insult in the dev community. If an app has a slight bug, a weird UI glitch, or feels a bit generic, people completely write it off as "vibe slop" generated by someone just spamming prompts at Claude or Cursor. Don't get me wrong, I get the skepticism. We've all seen the absolute flood of broken, insecure, unmaintainable junk being pushed out by people who don't actually know how to code. But it also feels like gatekeeping. There are genuinely cool, functional prototypes being built in a weekend by solo founders who otherwise couldn't afford a dev team. Are we just witnessing a massive backlash against AI-assisted building, or is the criticism totally justified because of how bad the code quality actually is under the hood? How are you guys handling this? Is "vibe coding" a legitimate badge of shame now, or is it just the future of building things fast?