The vibe coding hangover (Maintenance vs speed)
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With tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Lovable, spinning up a working prototype over a weekend is basically effortless now. We shipped faster than ever and actually got our first paying users in week two.
The catch? Because we prompted our way through the architecture instead of planning it, fixing a simple UI bug now breaks three unrelated API endpoints. We're spending more time debugging AI-generated spaghetti than talking to users.
For founders who launched an AI coded MVP this year.
At what point did you stop prompting fixes and actually hire someone (or sit down) to refactor the foundation?
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The agent lost context mid-task and rebuilt a helper that already existed two files away under a different name. Both versions drifted until a bug showed up. You don't just get messy code, you end up maintaining duplicate systems running side by side.