Vibe Coding Is the Future — But It Can Wreck Your Codebase if You’re Not Careful

AI can write entire apps for you. It’s fast, thrilling, and wildly productive — until it silently starts accumulating chaos. Here are the real pitfalls of Vibe Coding that no one talks about — and how to avoid turning your AI-powered workflow into a tech-debt time bomb.

Vibe Coding is a method of programming where you offload as much work to AI, let it write whole apps, and sometimes only autocomplete.

Vibe Coding helps you move faster and lifts the need for the tedious work. It also changes how you code. Instead of thinking of the next line of code, you get hundreds of lines of code that you shape with AI into what you need.

Vibe coding is great. However, it also comes with risks. In this article, I'll write to you about 10 of such risks so you know about them and vibe code better.

1. AI doesn't understand the code organisation

In 1999, NASA’s $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because one team used metric units while another used imperial, all due to poor system organization.

Even with the latest models available, AI is pretty lame when it comes to code organisation. To build a scalable and maintainable app, everything has to be in the right place…