Your team is shipping faster than ever. That might be your biggest problem.

I spent three days refactoring code that should have taken three hours. The project was a voice recognition SaaS — Next.js on the front, FastAPI on the back. The original MVP had been built fast. Really fast. AI-assisted, prompt-driven, vibe-first. It worked. Users could log in, the core flows ran, nothing was on fire. Then I had to touch it. What I found: a single file with six unrelated methods sharing state in ways nobody had documented. Variable names that made sense to an AI in the moment —