Vibe Coding, Six Months Later: The Honeymoon’s Over

When vibe coding first landed in dev circles, it felt like the cool kid at the party. Suddenly, everyone is talking about ditching rigid structures, coding with intuition and letting creativity lead instead of obsessing over linters and architecture diagrams.

The promise was intoxicating: Build faster, worry less and get the same feeling as you would when using open source code. But six months down the line, the champagne fizz is gone. Developers are realizing that while vibe coding makes prototyping fun, it also leaves behind some gnarly…