... with you, and in that case the app itself needs proper hard limits. Mine was kind of the opposite of a surprise bill lol I preloaded credits on Serper and they expired before I used them up. App down vs. a bill depends on the system for me. Once it's released and running in production, you have to run it so it never goes down. Funny timing with today's hunts too. FastRouter's per-project ... ... launch, then suddenly got a $169 Cloudflare bill at the end of the month. I hadn't been watching closely what AI was doing and turns out it was rewriting and pushing live the entire 1.1mil

... middle ground nobody talks about and I think it's the right answer for most technical founders. The thing is, agentic coding is inevitable. The product scales, the economics usually don't. So the question isn't vibecode vs engineer, it's which parts need to survive contact with production and which parts just need to exist. I vibecoded everything that isn't core infrastructure and I don't regret a single line of it. Speed to feedback is everything ... ... critical path, tracking, and anything expensive to rework - but don t build a Series A codebase for a product with zero users. That balance is probably where most strong MVPs live. Comment from Umair(@umairnadeem): honestly the whole vibecode vs

... work from hedge funds and research universities where 64m seems a small amount to even get the junior level work outsourced. Where is the disconnect to you? The quant team at one small hedge fund probably cost 10-20 mil ...