I have fun building tiny hobby apps using these AI tools - I built an HN version of Reddit Enhancement Suite where I can tag people, it tracks votes on comments/users, etc, in about 90 minutes using Bolt - but I've tried doing "real" apps and it always seems to collapse under its own weight after the second or third new feature beyond the initial framework.
That has been my experience as well. My top comment talks about building an AI app, but that app is not being vibe coded. I know the article talk about how Base44 was entirely vibe coded but TBH i find that very hard to believe.
The other day I tried to legit vibe code for about an hour and Claude could barely build a weather app that used NWS data for me. Even with this toy weather app it collapsed a few features in, simply put the context windows of these AI tools is just not large enough. I think vibe coding _might_ be viable once context windows start growing into the 5-10M token range but even then I'm skeptical.
