Developers over-rely on LLMs to rewrite messy code, spending hours in marathon sessions only to realize the AI was mostly refactoring spaghetti code back at them, with zero visibility into prompt wastage or metrics showing how often they hit 'undo' after poor prompts.
Developers using AI generation (vibecoders) over-rely on LLMs to rewrite messy code, resulting in low productivity from inefficient prompting that goes unnoticed without metrics.
Every vibecoder should track their prompts.
I’ll do a marathon session and convince myself I was productive only to realize 90% of it was the model rewriting my own spaghetti back at me.
commentOoh I like the name Promptrack. That line count stat alone makes me feel called out, I’ll do a marathon session and convince myself I was productive only to realize 90% of it was the model rewriting my own spaghetti back at me. Seeing it broken down daily probably stings at first but I bet it forces you to tighten up what you’re actually asking for. Might have to try something like this just to see how much I lean on the undo button after a bad prompt.
Seeing it broken down daily probably stings at first but I bet it forces you to tighten up what you’re actually asking for.
commentOoh I like the name Promptrack. That line count stat alone makes me feel called out, I’ll do a marathon session and convince myself I was productive only to realize 90% of it was the model rewriting my own spaghetti back at me. Seeing it broken down daily probably stings at first but I bet it forces you to tighten up what you’re actually asking for. Might have to try something like this just to see how much I lean on the undo button after a bad prompt.
just to see how much I lean on the undo button after a bad prompt.
commentOoh I like the name Promptrack. That line count stat alone makes me feel called out, I’ll do a marathon session and convince myself I was productive only to realize 90% of it was the model rewriting my own spaghetti back at me. Seeing it broken down daily probably stings at first but I bet it forces you to tighten up what you’re actually asking for. Might have to try something like this just to see how much I lean on the undo button after a bad prompt.
Software developers spending long hours using AI generation who want to optimize their prompt efficiency and stop wasting time on redundant code rewrites.
Complaints focus on hidden time sinks during long 'marathon' generation cycles and the active desire for an analytical reality check to curb lazy prompting.
While tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Continue focus entirely on code generation, VibeTrack focuses strictly on the analytics, productivity auditing, and prompt efficiency of the developer.
An IDE extension that acts as a fitness tracker for AI-assisted coding, logging prompt-to-line-change efficiency, tracking undo/rollback rates on AI output, and providing a daily dashboard that shows true productivity and prompts that caused code churn.
Developers value their time highly; saving even 30 minutes a week by preventing prompt-looping and 'undo' marathons easily justifies a minor tool cost. Users explicitly noted that seeing daily stats would 'force you to tighten up' and fix behavioral inefficiencies.
“Stop wasting hours rewriting spaghetti code with AI.”
An IDE extension that acts as a fitness tracker for AI-assisted coding, logging prompt-to-line-change efficiency, tracking undo/rollback rates on AI output, and providing a daily dashboard that shows true productivity and prompts that caused code churn.
Launch on GitHub, the VS Code Marketplace, and cross-post to AI developer communities on Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA, r/cscareerquestions) and X targeting the 'vibecoder' demographic.
Closed AI ecosystems like GitHub Copilot or Cursor might restrict third-party extensions from reading the exact prompt payload or telemetry, requiring indirect file-change diff analysis.
Users may fear that their proprietary code or internal prompts are being leaked, requiring local-first data processing to build trust.
Users may look at the stats for a week, tighten their prompt habits, and then uninstall the tool once the novelty wears off.
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