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 makes rebuilding cheap. But product decisions are expensive to recreate from memory. Here's how a behavior spec makes 'start fresh' a feature, not a failure.
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.
