Vibe Coding Works Until You Have to Read the Code

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Vibe coding is fine for code you’re going to throw away, and most of the fighting about it is really people disagreeing about which code that is.

Last month I needed a script to pull a CSV off a shared drive, reshape three columns, and push the rows into an API. I described it, ran what came back, fixed one wrong column name, and never read the rest. It worked. It ran twice and I deleted it. Reading that code line by line would have cost me an afternoon and bought me nothing.

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Vibe Coding Works Until You Have to Read the Code