Vibe-coding

About vibe coding from a designer's perspective.

I always welcome technological and process improvements. If the path to the result can be shortened, it is foolish not to take advantage of it. Last year I started using neurons in my work — not for the sake of hype and self-purpose, but just as a working tool. And it's incredibly cool!

I understand perfectly well that it is not a combat thing, but a prototype. Neural network is a tool that does not replace experience and brains. You need to have a clear idea of the project architecture and build the process correctly so that the neural network doesn't screw up the result. Because this standard — to quickly draw up a solution in an hour and be happy, and then spend another 50 hours debugging everything in rage and swearing at the stupid executor — is not an approach to work. It is never an approach to work, even without a neural network, but with a team.

I can tell professionals and those who like to hijack web-coding — when projects are done without designers, when interfaces are written — it's exactly the same "web design". Even if you take components of some Mantine or Ant, add illustrations from neurons — it's not design at all, but at best a sketch of your ideas about interactivity and user experience.

Resources in work tasks are limited and if as a designer I can design and think of a solution, it's harder to implement. And it is better to test hypotheses, not to mention interactive complex things, in realization, not on 20 mockups. Having designed a prototype of a new interactive feature for a 2D map for a couple of hours in code, I got time savings of a couple of weeks on just approvals and meetings, it's at least ×3 effect.

In the screenshot is the graph for the ontology model I made in code in a week. It will allow two teams to automate the delivery of 700 icons from figma to prod, tie them to five different trees in the UI, and allow analysts and architects to look at relationships within the database in an interactive space, replacing 20 tables in confluence. That's the kind of web coding that's going on.

Love technology and progress!