Year Two of CodePromptFu

On January 10 2025 I launched CodePromptFu, with the vision of becoming the commandlinefu of coding prompts. This site completed one year a few days ago. I want to take some time to look back on the year that was, and the year that will be.

The idea

I had a hunch that prompt-based coding would be huge. And that the community of such coders would eventually need a kind of stackoverflow for coding prompts - a place where people could upvote the best prompts. Mind you - this was quite early, before the word ‘vibe coding’ was invented by Andrej Karpathy. I was part of a month-long hackathon called EverydAI at that time. In it I built and launched CodePromptFu, using a lot of AI coding tools.

The reality in 2025

Vibe coding blew up and became insanely popular. The community exploded. But upvoting and downvoting seemed prehistoric. Everyone was busy trying out the next version of the next model. Or they were going to a website with a chat interface to find out more. The era of going through forums and lists was over - that was the job of AI now. As a result, this site got around only 50 visits per month. And nobody other than me (the creator) added new prompts.

The state of vibe coding now

Since the introduction of Claude Code, software is no longer the end product of a vibe coding session. People are using prompts to generate code which creates presentations, sends invoices, edit videos and even sell concert tickets. Almost all modern business functions can be performed - at a small scale - by prompting an AI agent.

This was never the case for Unix shell commands, the purpose of commandlinefu. The Unix shell was a way to run an operating system. An AI agent can run your life, or your business. The use cases of prompts are way way bigger than that of shell commands.

The path forward

It is quite clear that CodePromptFu needs a pivot. Is it even needed? Should it even be in this form?

Here are some options I am considering:

• Don’t expect humans to come and enter prompts, collect them from X, Reddit and LinkedIn
• Turn this into a prompt marketplace so that people can buy and sell prompts
• Archive the site somewhere as an experiment and shut it down
• Wait for the storm to settle down - 2026 might be an even more crazy year for prompt engineering

If you, the reader, have any thoughts on this, please let me know on X.