#vibecoding sucks #metacoding for the win. #softwareengineer #softwaredeveloper #saas

VIBECODING SUCKS if you really want to build maintainable, scalable, and production-quality applications. Metacoding is where it's at. Let's break it down. VIBECODING is an attempt to use an LLM through prompts to generate code in a full-blown application. While to the untrained eye, it seems promising at first, it's much like the code generated at school or hackathons. Sure, you could develop little apps, but it's often full of errors, hard to maintain, not scalable, and full of security holes. These problems compound the larger your project gets. With metacoding, you're in control of the architecture, and you use the LLM to generate the classes and functions necessary for a high-quality application. Think of it like Legos. Sure, you can use AI to generate the little Lego men, but forget about generating an entire Death Star. With metacoding, you define the model, you define the instructions, and you use the AI to generate the individual Lego pieces required to build your project. This approach is much, much better and gives you the scaffolding to build a really high-quality app. Line of business applications have been well-defined for decades. You're typically going to have a connection class, a data services layer, a business services layer, and a controller layer. These are going to define and create your RESTful web API. This is where all the power is. Now, certainly, you can use the same approach to generate UI that uses your web API to build your application, but let's face it. If it ever comes to a point where there's no skill or knowledge required to generate applications, these applications will have no value. But with that knowledge, you can use AI to build something amazing.