Vibe Coding: 13x Faster Development is the New Reality
The Dawn of Vibe Coding
Just today, I built the MVP for our company landing page - https://neonvil.com - IN JUST 3 HOURS. How? By pairing my engineering skills with an AI coding agent. In the "good old days," a similar landing page built from scratch would have easily consumed 25 hours of development, plus another 10-15 hours of design work.
Is the result perfect? For this stage, it's enough.
Can it be better? Of course.
Do I like it? A resounding YES.
Why so much positivity? Because I spent a grand total of 3 hours on it. When you compare that to the 40 hours it would have taken traditionally, the development was nearly 13 times faster. This is a definitive example of incredible "price to value."
Beyond the Landing Page: A Real-World Test
Skeptics might say this is just the tip of the iceberg for "VibeCoding." So let me share another example: a real project of mine, an automated AI agent crawler, written in Python and deployed on my local GPU machine. This agent pipelines LLM, OCR, and TTI (Text-to-Image) with a decision-making approach.
I spent a total of 40 hours building this agent, which I can run locally on my GPU using a public model, and I even created a complete blog for it. Here's the kicker: I did this without any sophisticated coding agent, just by using a local Llama model. In the real world, such a complex MVP could take up to 200 hours and still face the same theoretical hurdles I did. This is another case where vibe coding boosts development, saving immense time and money.
It's Not the Model, It's the Method
According to my latest observations, GPT-5 is frankly disappointing for its price. I ran some tests on my RAGs (Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems), and previous versions of GPT, as well as competitors like Gemini and Claude, performed better.
Would I use GPT-5? For me, it's a "doesn't matter" question. Why? Because I've realized that in my line of work, the name of the model doesn't matter as much as you'd think. In most aspects, they are functionally similar.
So, why is everyone so frustrated and I am not? For me, the answer is clear: I know how to organize work and provide clear, actionable goals. The secret to leveraging AI in development isn't just about having the "best" model - it's about having the vision and structure to guide it effectively. That's the essence of vibe coding.
Ready to experience the power of vibe coding for your own projects? Let's discuss how Neonvil can help you achieve similar results.