Vibe coding apps taught me how hard real coding is

Like so many others, I jumped onto the vibe coding bandwagon, entranced by the idea of building my own incredibly useful apps with nothing but an AI prompt. 

Over the course of about six weeks, I did manage to build my own apps–four of them, to be precise. By my count, three of them pretty much suck.

The one app that does work fairly well–a graphical dashboard that tracks the status of my Docker Swarm setup, a “unified cluster” configuration that allows various software services...