27/05/2026
Vibe coding feels fast because it skips the part that matters most.
You describe what you want. AI writes the code. The thing runs. Early on, this looks like a win — you've built in a day what used to take a week. But the structure underneath was never defined. You moved the cost, you didn't remove it.
Traditional development is slower at the start because the structure gets built deliberately. How data flows. How components interact. What happens when the system grows from ten users to ten thousand. None of that shows up in the demo. All of it shows up later.
The cost arrives when you try to add a feature and something three layers away breaks. When you try to debug and realise nobody — including the AI — knows how the pieces actually relate. When the system stops being something you maintain and starts being something you fight.
For a landing page or a quick prototype, vibe coding is fine. For anything with integrations, user flows, or data that needs to stay consistent, the lack of structure becomes the bottleneck that costs more to fix than it would have cost to build properly.
Anyone can generate output now. The harder part — keeping it coherent as it grows — is where we work.
