[📝] Today Was #143: Vibe Coding Reality Check and a Design System Plan

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A day when a vibe coding reality check made me see again the need to design a design system.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223944028842
• Naver published at: 2025/07/23 12:52 KST
• Original category: Today’s Verification

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🗓️ Date: 2025.7.22 Tue

Goals: 3/3

Tasks: 0/0

Habits: 3/3

🔂-🎯 Goal Management Routine System

Lifetime Goals

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Reach more than 1 million monthly active users (MAU)

Goals for 2025

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 2025.07

  Complete the Life RPG proposal draft

• 🎯 Temporary roadmap (not confirmed): Develop at least 5 apps (modules) built into the Life RPG platform

• 🎯 2025.08

  Oharu (Today Was)

• Life RPG’s core daily gamification app, with an internal SNS feature for setting today’s goal and sharing completion with friends.

• 🎯 2025.09

  KeyFit(KeyFit)

• Exercise gamification app that manages exercise records and can link records with PT teacher

• 🎯 2025.10

  Pianolic

• A music gamification app that manages piano performance records and collects practiced songs and albums.

• 🎯 2025.11

  Running Party

• A running gamification app that tracks running records and provides a matching feature for running with nearby users.

• 🎯 2025.12

  Auto Vibe

• An educational gamification app that collects tips and lectures on automation tools and vibe coding and presents learning guidelines tailored to the user’s purpose.

• 🎯 2026.01

  Open Life Store

• Officially opening the Life Store, the core of the platform. Users can purchase app access rights in the store, and developers can register new apps.

• 🎯 2026.02

  Preliminary Startup Package Challenge

• Challenge the government-supported Preliminary Startup Package to verify business feasibility and secure support for the platform’s growth and stable operation.

• [Gurumiya]

• 🎯 Monetize the app

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 10 kg (85kg → 75kg)

Goals for July

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG proposal

• ✅ Open workspaces (Google, Notion, Discord)

• ✅ Open Business Email

• ✅ Life RPG website opened

• [Gurumiya]

• ✅ Make it actually usable

• [Health]

• 🎯 weight 2kg loss (85kg → 83kg)

Goals for the Third Week of July

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG proposal

• 🎯 Platform-related business and revenue model design

• 🎯 Consider B2B conversion

• 🎯 Market research: planning plan, apps to be included, business and revenue model related, … (+ AI)

• 🎯 Core hypothesis verification: Collection of materials related to gamification efficacy

• 🎯 survey

• 🎯 Organize content in Notion Workspace

• [Gurumiya]

• 🎯 Significantly strengthened security

• 🎯 Modularize reusable code as much as possible

• 🎯Remove all issues

• 🎯 Data Scehma normalization

• [Health]

• 🎯 weight 2Kg loss (85.0kg → 83.0kg)

Today’s Goal (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ Find a vibe coding app design plan

🔂-📌 Task Management Routine System

Today’s Tasks (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ Climb 10 flights of stairs

Things I Want to Do Today (Optional, for Notes)

• None

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

• ✅ Strength: at least one strength I discovered in myself today

• When you receive praise, the joy and happiness lasts a long time.

• ✅ Gratitude: at least one thing I was grateful for today

• I am grateful for being able to continue a healthy partnership where we can exchange sincere praise with each other.

• ✅ Routine: check today’s goal / tasks / habits

🤔 Brief reflection

Today, while doing vibe coding again, there was a moment when a reality check came.

I told Claude Code to fix a very simple error, but Claude Code wrote the code for 20 to 30 minutes, erased it, restored it, wrote it, erased it, restored it, and so on… repeating the same thing. Then, in the end, it eventually blew away the entire file as a temporary measure to ‘remove the error,’ and I wondered if it had lost its mind.

No… I don’t think it’s such a serious error? Out of frustration, I tried to solve the problem by slowly reading the code myself. It was just a matter of adding ‘]’. So, I was completely handing over my entire project to a guy who couldn’t even correct simple grammatical errors like this? The reality check came hard.

… But that doesn’t mean I can quit vibe coding. I guess I just discovered this guy’s weakness. I just need to compensate for its weaknesses and make use of its strengths. Ultimately, it is my responsibility to learn skills to compensate for those weaknesses. I should not be so absorbed in vibe coding that I neglect to study Flutter.

Anyway, even if I can somehow get past coding…

Another challenge facing me right now is ‘design’.

Now that Gurumiya’s features have been developed to some extent, I need to develop the Today, My Day app… but the design is the problem. I want to make it a little prettier in pastel tones and increase theme consistency… but I can’t quite figure out how to do that with vibe coding.

1. Design using Figma Al and export as code.

2. Save the captured image + exported code as a reference file.

3. Refer to the reference file and describe typography + color palette, etc.

4. Refer to the reference file and use Playwright MCP to produce a result as similar to the design as possible.

For now, this is the routine I have in mind.

Can I do it well?

… I don’t know. I have to give it a try first.