You\u2019ve just inherited a project that was supposed to be a “breakthrough” because it was built in record time using AI magic. Instead, you\u2019re staring at a house of cards. It works – sort of – but every time you touch the code, something breaks in a completely unrelated corner of the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This isn\u2019t just technical debt; it\u2019s vibe coding gone wrong. Andrej Karpathy, who noted in early 2025 that programming is becoming more about guiding intention than writing syntax, was right about the shift. But for a production system, “guiding intention” without a pragmatic engineering safety net is a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Wiktor \u017bo\u0142nowski, CEO of Pragmatic Coders, points out: “The idea of Clean Code was born from the fact that developers spend several times more time reading code than writing it. With AI, that ratio has shifted to dozens, if not hundreds, of times more time spent on reading and verifying.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you don’t take control now, this project will burn your budget and your team’s morale. You need a 48-hour rescue plan to stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n