Add-on Anyone try vibe coding an addon?

[dethfire]

I've been trying to get Cursor using GPT4.1 to create a simple valid xenforo 2.3 addon and it's failing really badly. Missing required files, wrong formats, wrong file structures etc. I wonder if the help docs are not in the LLMs much. Anyone had success?

 

[Ozzy47]

I would not even bother, you'll waste much more time than if you wrote it out yourself.

 

[JustinHawk]

I've been trying to get Cursor using GPT4.1 to create a simple valid xenforo 2.3 addon and it's failing really badly. Missing required files, wrong formats, wrong file structures etc. I wonder if the help docs are not in the LLMs much. Anyone had success?

Well i tried and yeah it fails a lot of time.

I've been trying to get Cursor using GPT4.1 to create a simple valid xenforo 2.3 addon and it's failing really badly.

The best part is this, that sometimes it gives you one of the best ideas on your approach on how you should solve a problem in the addon you are developing.

Though don't bother with creating a full fledge addon with it. It is complete waste of time.

 

[Taylor J]

I wouldn't doubt that vibe coding for addons is so far a disaster. Most of the knowledge that any LLM would get about the structure/logic of XenForo would come from public posts here or random posts on warez forums probably. I've had some times were I tried asking it how to do something in one of the more recent versions of XF but it put in random methods that weren't parent methods on a parent class and much more.

If the LLM's had access to the source code, which to be fair I would think at the least Copilot would if there are instances of people pushing up their entire site to a repo, then they would maybe stand a better chance.

I don't think vibe coding will ever be a real thing for anything but re-creating stuff like doom with TypeScript types. I watched a week long live stream of a few programming content creators, one whom is an ex senior Netflix engineer, where they attempted to vibe code out a game. It took them much longer than needed due to having to fix all of the code given to them.