When Code Stopped Being a Vibe and Started Being a Job

There's a specific kind of late-night feeling familiar to anyone who has tried to build something with a chatbot. You describe what you want — "make me a little app that tracks how much water I drink" — and the model fires back fifty lines of code that look impressive, almost work, and silently break in three places. You paste the error back. You get another fifty lines. By 2 a.m. you're not building software anymore; you're playing a kind of haunted telephone game with a system that keeps confi