just discovered my best friend has been vibe coding for the last 2 years
i was horrified
he’s been shipping full products with no specs, no diagrams, no architecture reviews, just “trying things until it feels right”
i invited him over for an intervention
we opened his metrics
apps in production: 3
paying customers: 1,200
monthly downtime: 0 minutes
it was worse than i imagined
millions of lines of undocumented intuition, completely non-compliant with any serious engineering framework
i did the only thing a real friend could do
we spent the entire weekend rebuilding his workflow
introduced jira, quarterly architecture councils, rfc templates, raci matrices and a strict “no code without diagram” policy
his shipping pace collapsed overnight
but now every button change requires a 9-page design doc, a risk analysis and a future scalability assessment for when he “hits 10 million users”
revenue growth stalled
but his confluence space has never looked more enterprise-ready
i’ve never been more proud of him
he’s no longer some chaotic vibe coder
he’s finally a blocked, over-process senior engineer
"Because of the 'all-or-none' character of nervous activity, neural events and the relations among them can be treated by means of propositional logic. It is found that the behavior of every net can be described in these terms."