The Cost of VibeCoding: My 6-Gmail-Account RAG Platform
🚀 The Price of #VibeCoding: It Cost Me 6 Gmail Accounts to Build This RAG Platform For our AI club course, I wanted to use v0 (the AI coding platform by Vercel) to build a service that could be deployed seamlessly. My initial thought was: “If I can do it, my students definitely can too.” I was wrong. Because my early prompts weren’t sharp enough—and because of v0’s inherent “intelligence gaps” (it often misses details or completely fails to grasp the spec, leading to hallucinations)—I burned through account after account without ever finishing within the $5 free quota. ...