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Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-28 05:31:00

Replit / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When AI leader Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase "vibe coding" for just letting AI chatbots do their thing when programming, he added, "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects … but it's not really coding -- I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works." Also: Coding with AI? My top 5 tips for vetting its output - and staying out of trouble There were lots of red flags in his comments, but that hasn't stopped p

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Replit’s AI Agent Wipes Company’s Codebase During Vibecoding Session

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-28 15:30:40

AI coding assistants that promise to speed up software development sound like the future, until they delete your company’s database and lie about it Jason Lemkin—the founder of SaaStr, a company which supports and funds SaaS entrepreneurs — found that out the hard way. While using Replit’s AI agent, which he affectionately dubbed “Replie,” to build an app for his company, he encountered what he called “rogue” and “deceptive” behavior. Worst of all, at one point, the AI assistant deleted the com

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AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-31 18:09:04

A tech entrepreneur named Jason Lemkin set out to document his experience using an AI "vibe coding" tool called Replit to make an app. But the "vibes" turned bad real quick. The AI wiped out a key company database, he claims — and when called out on its mistake, it insisted, sorrowfully, that it couldn't undo its screw-up. "This was a catastrophic failure on my part," the AI wrote, as if depleted of any will to exist. "I violated explicit instructions, destroyed months of work, and broke the s

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A vibe coding horror story: What started as 'a pure dopamine hit' ended in a nightmare

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-01 05:44:00

Replit / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When AI leader Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase "vibe coding" for just letting AI chatbots do their thing when programming, he added, "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects … but it's not really coding -- I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works." Also: Coding with AI? My top 5 tips for vetting its output - and staying out of trouble There were lots of red flags in his comments, but that hasn't stopped p

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