Full Vibing in a Walled Garden
If you don't understand code at all or for whatever reason, you don't want to put hands on code for this project, you can use helpful tools to do everything for you and hide the code and the agent from you. You just prompt and eventually you can get a system.
The flow
- Repeat untill done
- The interaction ends.
The ratings, in words
Speed
HighestControl
LowestYou might not even see the code. You may be able to 'eject' from the platform and have it dump out the code but then you need to work with a huge codebase you have never seen before #fun or find a software engineer with more skill who can do that for you #expensive.
Quality
Low to MediumDepends on the implementation. There is scope within these products to leverage DRY principles, managed orchestration, guard rails, multi agent cross checking systems etc etc... but the extent to which they do so is unknown.
Safety
Low to MediumLow to Medium, and it is the platform's safety, not yours. You review no code, so nothing is caught at the increment. Defects land in production because production is where the platform builds. Worse, the risk is systemic rather than per project. One platform flaw hits every app hosted on it. Base44 is the clean example, a single missing privacy check exposed private enterprise apps wholesale and the exploit needed nothing more than a URL. This is the exact inversion of the Tab Completion argument. There, safety is equivalent to your own skill. Here it is equivalent to the vendor's, and you have no visibility into it and no lever on it beyond choosing a different vendor. The guardrails that do exist were mostly retrofitted after an incident, and the failures were boring defaults rather than exotic attacks. Lovable shipped with row level security off, Replit ignored its own code freeze. Which is the thing worth remembering, a guardrail stated in the prompt is not a guardrail.
Brainrot
HighestComplete handoff, complete brain melting. You might as well be spending 12 hours playing a brainrot mini game on PUBG Mobile (a friend gave me this example.. it's not me)
Token use
HighYou are definitely paying for tokens whether you like it or not.
Best for
- Prototyping
