unpopular opinion but vibe coding has taught me more than any course ever did and i am not sorry
i spent two years bookmarking udemy courses i never finished. i have a notion page called "learning roadmap" that has not been opened since 2023. i watched a guy explain what a variable is for forty five minutes and retained nothing.
then i started vibe coding and suddenly i am learning things at an alarming rate purely through chaos and consequences
i learned what an api is because mine stopped working at 11pm and i had to figure out why
i learned what environment variables are because i pushed mine to github publicly and got three emails in four minutes
i learned what rate limits are because my app worked perfectly until it didn't and then it really didn't
i learned what cors is because of a error message that made no sense until it suddenly made complete sense and now i see it in my dreams
i learned what a deployment pipeline is because mine exploded on a friday and i had to fix it over the weekend like a real developer except i was in my pajamas eating cereal
nobody taught me any of this. no course. no tutorial. no youtube video with a guy saying "and if you are enjoying this content don't forget to." pure unadulterated panic taught me everything i know
the difference between a course and vibe coding is simple. the course has no consequences. nobody gets hurt if you quit at module 3. but when your thing is broken and someone is actually trying to use it you will learn whatever you need to learn very very fast
anyway i still don't know what recursion is and i have made peace with tha