Everyone wants to vibe code now. Almost no one thinks about who maintains what's left.
It became a trend. "I built a SaaS in 48 hours with AI." "I launched a product without writing a single line." "The agent handles architecture, I handle the idea."
Then production happens.
The first paying customer hits a bug that lives somewhere nobody can locate. The second feature forces rewriting half of what already exists. After a few weeks the agent has lost track of its own code. A migration breaks because the domain was never modeled in the first place.
And the founder thinks the next model will fix it. It won't.
Speed of writing was never what held people back from building products. What held them back was understanding the problem, modeling the domain, deciding what scales and what turns into debt.
The easy part got faster. The hard part stayed exactly where it was.
Vibe coding validates an idea over a weekend. It doesn't sustain a product running in production with an SLA. Whoever confuses the two finds out the price in month 4, when the code stops evolving and nobody inside can read what was written.
Before asking for the first prompt, model the domain. Then delegate the execution.
That gap between something that demos and something that holds in production is where Studio Labs lives. It's also why we build the agent in production instead of handing over a deck.