# Vibe Coding Is Fun Until Production

> Source: <https://dev.to/sripadh_sujith_1487e8db18/vibe-coding-is-fun-until-production-2e4l>
> Published: 2026-05-28 03:32:47+00:00

A few months ago, I started building side projects differently.

Instead of:

I started doing this:

“Build me a responsive dashboard with authentication, dark mode, PostgreSQL integration, and Stripe payments.”

And somehow…

It worked.

AI tools can now generate:

We’ve entered the era of **vibe coding**.

And honestly?

It feels amazing.

Vibe coding is when you:

Instead of engineering every detail manually, you steer the *vibe* of the application.

Tools making this popular:

You become less of a code writer and more of a:

At least in theory.

The productivity boost is unreal.

You can build in hours what used to take days.

Things that once required:

…now happen through prompts.

You feel unstoppable.

And production is where the vibes end.

Because production doesn’t care if the demo looked cool.

Production cares about:

This is where AI-generated code starts exposing cracks.

This is the dangerous part.

AI code is often:

But hidden underneath:

AI is very good at generating:

It is much worse at:

You start noticing:

This one is serious.

AI can accidentally introduce:

The code often works perfectly…

while being completely unsafe.

And beginners may not notice.

That’s dangerous.

When you write code manually, you understand:

With AI-generated code?

Sometimes you’re debugging code you barely understand.

You end up asking AI:

“Why did YOU write this?”

And the answer changes every time.

AI dramatically accelerates:

But it also accelerates:

You can now create:

6 months of technical debt in 2 days.

That’s impressive.

And terrifying.

The valuable skill now is:

Because AI lowers the barrier to *creating* code.

But reviewing code?

Understanding tradeoffs?

Designing systems?

Those skills matter more than ever.

The best developers in the AI era are not necessarily:

They are the people who can:

Despite all this, I still use AI every day.

It’s amazing for:

AI is not the problem.

Blind trust is.

I let AI:

But I still personally verify:

Vibe coding is real.

And it’s changing software development permanently.

But production systems still require:

AI can generate code.

But responsibility is still human.

Have you experienced the “vibe coding → production chaos” pipeline yet?

What’s the weirdest AI-generated bug you’ve seen?

👇 Drop your experiences below.