Vibe-Coding Works. That's Exactly Why It Will Destroy Your Codebase at Scale.

The productivity gains are real. The compound debt is realer. And almost no team is measuring the right thing. Let me say the quiet part out loud: vibe-coding is not the villain in this story. The critics who call it "reckless" are wrong. The evangelists who call it "the future of engineering" are also wrong. And if your team is using it at scale without a framework, you are quietly building a time bomb inside your own codebase. I've watched this pattern play out across multiple production syste