Comprehension debt finally has a name. The popular cure — write more docs — inherits the gap it's meant to close. What actually pays it down.
LangChain OpenWiki validates repo documentation for coding agents. But repo orientation is not the same as evidence-graded product understanding.
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.
You own a product you can't explain — acquired, inherited, or vibe-coded with AI. Here's how to read code you didn't really write, behavior by behavior.
You vibe-coded a working product. Users use it. You can't speak for it without reading every line. The product is yours — you just don't know it yet.
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 coding tools is genuinely good. The problem isn't the speed — it's what gets left behind. Product reasoning doesn't survive the vibe.
