Your vibe-coded app caught on and now people pay for it — but you can't fully explain it. Build a mental model without reading every line, top-down.
Your product works. On launch day someone asks what it does at the edges — and you'd have to open the file to answer. That gap is the real launch risk.
Vibe-coding got you a working product you can't speak for. Reclaiming it isn't slowing down — it's re-authoring what you shipped, behavior by behavior.
AI made the rewrite cheap; recreating years of product decisions from memory did not get cheaper. How to keep the decisions when you throw away the code.
Shipping fast with AI agents feels productive. But the costliest mistake isn't bad code — it's building confidently when nobody wrote down what was decided.
Shipping fast with AI coding tools is genuinely good. The problem isn't the speed — it's what gets left behind. Product reasoning doesn't survive the vibe.
