The New Pandemic: Vibe-Coding Gone Viral

Content Think about your problem beforehand and come up with a good solution Figure the entire thing out as you go and rewrite your code completly once you know what to do

Content MOER, if HTML was a programming language it would be called HTPL CHANGE MY MIND

Content YOU WATCH VIDEO TUTORIALS READ THE APIREFERENCE WE ARE NOT THE SAME

The modern developer workflow in six easy steps! First, open your editor with good intentions. Then, immediately surrender to AI because who has time to think anymore? Watch in mild disappointment as the AI spits out code that looks suspiciously functional. Minutes later, your terminal explodes with errors that weren't in the job description. No problem—just ask the AI to fix what it broke! And finally, witness the miracle of technology as your codebase transforms from "barely working" to "completely demolished." The circle of life for the contemporary programmer who's just trying to vibe while their project burns to the ground.

Congratulations! You've just launched a security breach disguised as an AI startup! The "yellow line" isn't a bug—it's your IDE screaming in terror because you've hardcoded API keys directly in your source code. Nothing says "professional developer" like publishing your AWS, Supabase, OpenAI, and custom API credentials to the entire internet. Those aren't just strings—they're golden tickets to your infrastructure that now belong to everyone with an internet connection. Pro tip: when speedrunning bankruptcy, this is definitely the optimal strategy!

Your algorithm passes all unit tests with flying colors. Integration tests? Green across the board. You deploy to production feeling like a genius. Then real users show up with their NULL values in required fields, negative ages, emails like "asdfjkl;", and suddenly your code is doing the programming equivalent of slipping on ice while being attacked by reality itself. The test environment is a sanitized bubble where data behaves exactly as documented. Production is where someone's last name is literally "DROP TABLE users;--" and their birthdate is somehow in the year 3000. Your carefully crafted edge cases didn't account for the infinite creativity of actual humans entering data. Fun fact: This is why defensive programming exists. Trust nothing. Validate everything. Assume users are actively trying to break your code, because statistically, they are.