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 to dynamically floa...