Should you deliver vibe coded apps? · AI Automation Society

Should you deliver vibe coded apps?

I chatted with a client who received a vibe-coded app that had some issues. And guess what, the developer could not debug and fix the problems. This is supposed to be in production right now and generate leads, but instead it's in limbo. And they have gone ahead and used an unofficial WhatsApp solution and built their own system. You can take a guess and understand that you'll need to do a lot of digging to fix this system.

Now imagine you've built an entire ecosystem, but you don't know how anything works. You have no clue how the code works. For sure you can keep prompting to try and fix it, but soon enough you'll run into an issue where more does not help. So now you're stuck in a big mess. I know this because I ran into a massive headache of a project myself. I tried to vibe code a solution for a client, until I told them that this is not for me. The thing is, AI code is great, but when you're selling a product it needs to work, and if it breaks you need to be able to fix it. Or else you won't have any repeat customers.

The lesson: use AI to code and deliver projects, for sure. But make sure to understand what you're doing, so that if something breaks you can fix it.

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