Original Reddit post

I started my vibe coding journey about a year ago. No prior dev experience. Been working on a React web app and a JUCE audio plugin. For both projects, I created detailed PRD’s and annotated Figma mockups which I provided Claude Code. Plus quite a robust dev environment with necessary MCP’s and Skills. Still, Claude Code usually delivers a relatively bare bones UI/functionality which I then have to spend weeks debugging each feature one at a time. Frontend not connected to the backend, broken/missing animations, etc, etc. Some battles I win, some not… I often see people’s posts online proclaiming they’ve one shotted a whole dashboard etc. Am I doing something wrong or is this smoke and mirrors. Is anyone else having a similar experience vibe coding with the current tools? Are the models/harnesses just not ‘there’ yet in order to understand the scope of the entire project architecture? Any useful tips would be appreciated. Thanks! submitted by /u/Josh000_0

Originally posted by u/Josh000_0 on r/ClaudeCode