You Become a Hostage of Your Vibe-Coded Project
Originally published on Impl — Jaroslaw Michalik's newsletter on engineering, AI, and building software that lasts.
"Ship fast, figure it out later" works right up until later arrives. A project built quickly with AI and no process doesn't just accumulate debt like any other codebase — it tends to accumulate debt that only the person who prompted it into existence can untangle, because no one else was ever in the loop. The dirty truth most vibe-coding guides skip: speed without structure trades a slow start for a permanent bottleneck of one.