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You face real maintenance and sustainability issues when ceding coding control to AI.
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There are two prevailing narratives about vibe coding. The first is that you can write a single sentence, and the AI will give you back a million-dollar app. The second is that since the AI is writing all the code, humans have no idea what's inside it. It must, therefore, eventually fail and cause a large-scale apocalypse.
Both of these narratives are caricatures of reality. In previous articles, I've talked about my work on a variety of vibe-coded projects. We've looked at how they're both amazing and a lot of work. In this article, I'm going to dive deep into the maintenance and sustainability questions that come from ceding coding control to a machine.
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