Rant: Being a mentor at hackathons is becoming really depressing. The amount of people vibecoding and not knowing wtf they’re doing at all is *insane* and the fact that AI barely understands how blockchain interactions work makes it even worse.

And then at 4am when everything breaks and they are too tired to prompt properly anymore they become moody and expect you to fix it for them. Ugh.

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It really is like teaching toddlers. Tired, cranky and sometimes drunk toddlers

This sounds exhausting. I can only imagine. I just teach 11-15 year old kids. Grown ass adults can be so ... extra.

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I trust you to know at least some basics 😁 And being smart enough to debug yourself 🤣

I had no experience or training except a few months of code academy. Since October, I’ve vibecoded (Next JS / VS Code) 
six functional minters, a staking app (still live) and a marketplace that (worked perfectly for a couple of months, now completely fucked) on the @thirdweb sdk. 

Totally agree with the above sentiment.

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Lately I’ve been really-really enjoying tinkering with html/css/js (web2) apps/ websites and feel like that this is a good lane atm.

Everything doesn’t need to be onchain always. 

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I feel that AI has made people so lazy to think. And it takes out the fun out of hackathons.

Ai vibecoding is not good yet for blockchain applications. But actually does well in web2 stuff.

thanks for sharing, interesting to know. I started to fear more using AI as it's often wrong or doesn't fit with the rest of the project, the context is too complicated to explain, etc. I feel at this point AI robs programmers and others from the opportunity of understanding, creating and delivery great results

To be fair, you could probably replace vibecoding with coding and things get just as intense at 4am.

trying to build something people will actually like / currently working on: 3d modeling & game dev

it heavily boosts your productivity but i dont think that it will take humans to the needed destination

we already have like 1,000+ chatgpt wrappers. like hey write a react component using our app, why use chatgpt. hey build mobile app with our app in one prompt, why use claude

also this is addictive and you are starting to unlearn things so fast

ai will make hand written code niche. just like traditional painters became more niche after tools like photoshop etc came along

i think being able to write code without such tools might even boost your professionalism

there are always extremes with any new tech