No, I feel the same. I vibe-coded a few projects and after a few weeks I just threw them away, ultimately I felt I just wasted my time and wished I coudl get it back to do something useful.
I see a whole spectrum between those two. I typically alternate between "writing code manually and asking AI for code examples" (ChatGPT coding), and "giving AI specific instructions like, write a function blarg that does foo".
The latter I call Power Coding, in the sense of power armor, because you're still in control and mostly moving manually, but you're much stronger and faster.
I like this better than "tell agent to make a bunch of changes and come back later" because first of all it doesn't break flow (you can use a smaller model for such fine-grained changes so it goes very fast -- it's "realtime"), and second, you don't ever desync from the codebase and need to spend extra time figuring out what the AI did. Each change is sanity-checked as it comes in.
So you stay active, and the code stays slop-free.
I don't hear a lot of people doing this though? Maybe we just don't have good language for it.
Interesting thought. I guess we don't really, vibe coding is to powerful a term. But perhaps just call it LLM assisted programming? Where we used to do Stack Overflow assisted programming. LLM assisted programming is more focused, goes faster. But since you're wandering around less I guess you learn less, you're exposed to less new information, some of it was helpful in unexpected ways. Now you have to make learning a specific part of your flow, and that takes discipline/time. But is well worth it imho. Actually, for me it's the only way to enjoy it.
So, most homebuilders (in the US) unfortunately.
It came at great cost though, I hated the process of learning and the execution. I was less than happy for some years. But I feel even more uncomfortable vibe-home-improving than I do vibe-coding. The place is starting to look nice now though.