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Vibe coding is changing the indiehacker landscape

9 pointsby welder2 days ago

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joshstrange1 day ago
As always, talk to me 10 or 50 iterations in on how that&#x27;s going.<p>LLMs can spit out really great and impressive PoCs but that&#x27;s all they are, PoC, MVPs. Any developer worth their salt can tell you that an MVP is the easy part, it&#x27;s scaling that up (load&#x2F;traffic as well as business logic) is the hard part.<p>LLMs can let you jump start the MVP process and make it faster to iterate on early ideas. In that way, it&#x27;s very useful (and this is _not_ me writing off LLMs) but the foundation you are building on is shakey.<p>Maybe this says more about me but almost every time I&#x27;ve used a boilerplate&#x2F;starter project (Not talking about bootstrap but themeforest-type templates you can buy) I&#x27;ve found it very underwhelming after the initial honeymoon period. I think LLMs are similar in this aspect. At the start you feel like you are saving a ton of time (and you are) but as the project goes on it gets more and more complicated and the chance that the starter project (or LLM-generated project) is able to to scale to your new needs is rare, at least without heavy modification.<p>I maintain that &quot;vibe coders&quot; (people who can&#x27;t actually program on their own or are weak at it) cannot create sustainable projects. That doesn&#x27;t mean they won&#x27;t get funding, and hire people who can take their POC&#x2F;MVP and turn it into something that you can sell and won&#x27;t collapse under its own weight.<p>Again, I&#x27;ll state I&#x27;m not anti-LLM and I use it daily but these &quot;hot takes&quot; about how teens are changing the indiehacker landscape are incredibly suspect IMHO. Are they spamming the indie landscape? Sure, that doesn&#x27;t surprise me but other than a few flukes I don&#x27;t expect to see &quot;vibe coders&quot; displace indie hackers anytime soon.