anyone else getting burned out by the "vibe coding" loop?

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Summary

A developer shares frustration with the 'vibe coding' loop—spending more time managing AI prompts than writing code—and asks how others stay productive with tools like Cursor and Claude.

i've been trying to finish a basic side project over the last two weeks using pretty much just cursor and claude. at first it felt like magic, ngl. blew through the basic setup in like an hour. but now im realizing i spend way more time reading through massive context walls and arguing with the prompt than actually building anything. it feels like i traded syntax errors for just babysitting an AI that constantly apologizes and then makes the same mistake three times in a row. how are you guys actually staying productive with this? are you still writing core logic by hand and just using AI for boilerplate, or are you pushing through the prompts? genuinely curious because the fatigue is real
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