I tried vibe-creating with phoenix.new

Just tried to take Fly.io’s phoenix.new for a spin. I love Elixir, even though I never really used it heavily. I learned about this service some months ago on Hackernews.

It’s a coding environment with something like Copilot enabled, that lets you create complete Elixir/Phoenix apps.

Or so I thought. Turns out it burned through my 20€ in an hour and I don’t even have a working CRUD app that I wanted. There was nothing special in my requests, just some entries that I can edit. Most of the time it was fixing its own errors.

It felt like a slot machine. “Please add another 20$”. What a scam.

I recently started going to a gym and wanted something simple to save my settings on all the training-tools. An app that lets me save a photo of a thing in the gym and lets me track the weights, angles, seat-height etc. and add notes. I naively thought it’s a good simple thing to try “Vibing”. I didn’t expect much, and still was disappointed.

I considered making a Qt app, but there’s no way to permanently install apps on the iPhone unfortunately.

I downloaded my generated repo and instantly cancelled the subscription.