“Vibe coding” is absolute sh*t. I don’t care what the Twitter threads say. I don’t care how cool that Notion-esque “collab with AI” demo looks. In real life? It’s a train wreck. Let me paint you the masterpiece: You finally hack one dumb feature into place. It barely works. It’s fragile, like Jenga at move 27. So naturally, you think, “Cool, let’s build feature two.” This is where the bomb detonates. Touch literally anything and feature one falls apart. You debug for hours, fix one thing, and now feature two is broken. Smash them together and your codebase is a landfill of duplication, hacks, and accidental copy-paste genius. And we’re not even talking about code quality. Or structure. Or actually understanding what it’s building behind your back. Survive that? You get spaghetti code that looks like it was written by four drunk interns and a golden retriever. GenAI gurus still act like it’s magic. Wrong. Quick check: Would you drive a car if you knew the self-driving software was vibe coded? Would you store your life savings in a bank with vibe-coded backend? Would you get on a plane if you learned “well, the AI did its best with autopilot, but wow, those first two buttons work great”? No. Nobody with survival instincts would. Here’s the reality, today: ↳ Vibe coding ≠ productivity. It's a slot machine. ↳ One feature “working” is pure luck. ↳ Add another? Enjoy the chaos. ↳ Your codebase becomes a museum of bugs and TODOs. Want code with integrity? Consistency? Something actual developers can ship, maintain, and scale? Forget it. Maybe one day these tools can take your napkin doodle and ship Stripe-level systems. Right now? It’s brute force, constant rollback, and praying nothing explodes when you add a second button. That’s why, at BuddiesHR, we still build the hard way. The proper way. Actual engineering discipline. Shipping features that stay shipped. No magic shortcuts. No AI hallucinations. Founders: stop deluding yourselves. You want one “Auto-GPT”-built feature? Maybe. A product? Not this decade. Stay sharp. Write real code. Ship things that last. Or strap in for the vibe-coded rollercoaster. Good luck getting off alive. ---------- 👋 Hey, I'm J.Y! I'm the co-founder of BuddiesHR, the #1 Employee Engagement Software that lives in Slack. I post 1x a day about my journey and share what I've learned along the way. Follow me for more content like this 👆 P.S. I'm writing a no-BS B2B SaaS playbook with everything I've learned. Want a free copy? Click “Visit my website” to sign up.