The hardest part of vibe coding isn't building the app
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. With Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc. , I can get an app from an idea to something working ridiculously quickly . And honestly, that's great. But then comes the part that isn't as fun. You put it in front of actual users. Someone does something you didn't think of. An API returns something weird. A background job fails. A user creates an account and the…
The most challenging aspect of vibe coding, according to the author, is not the initial development of the application. With tools like Claude, Codex, and Cursor, an app can be swiftly transformed from an idea to a functioning prototype. However, the real struggle begins once the app is in the hands of real users. Unexpected behaviors, API errors, background job failures, and seemingly functional AI-generated functions can all cause headaches for developers.
These issues often require more time and effort to diagnose than to resolve. This observation led the author to create Shipsure, a platform designed to provide AI-built apps with enhanced visibility into the areas that tend to go awry after deployment. Rather than another AI coding agent or a simple error-reporting tool, Shipsure aims to offer developers a detailed account of what went wrong when their app broke.
The author is actively exploring the potential of this product and is particularly interested in learning about the most frustrating bugs encountered in AI-built applications. The goal is to identify those seemingly trivial issues that consume an excessive amount of time to uncover - the kind of bugs that leave developers questioning how such a simple problem could take so long to diagnose.
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