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Vibe coding: Because who doesn’t love surprise technical debt!?

Arindam Majumder on September 01, 2025

AI-assisted coding tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot are a godsend. I use them every day — for boilerplate, bug fixes, fast explo...
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Debajyati Dey

Vibe Coding is the Fast Food of Software Engineering.

If not used carefully, it is equivalent to brainrot.

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Arindam Majumder CodeRabbit

Well Said!

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Ali Farhat

Interesting read!

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Arindam Majumder CodeRabbit

Thanks for checking out!

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na.perruchot

M'y tech use vibe coding to work faster.
I use m'y life to fix all this work...

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David Jones

NIce one!

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Arindam Majumder CodeRabbit

Thanks for checking out!

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The Duy

great !!!!

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Arindam Majumder CodeRabbit

Glad you liked it!

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Kamrul Arafin

Vibe coding is easy to start but hard to scale.

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Arindam Majumder CodeRabbit

Agreed!

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Gulajava Ministudio • Edited

That’s why when using AI tools like Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, it’s important to start by defining a clear Product Requirement Document. Once that foundation is set, we should create a proper planning document that outlines the features we want to build step by step. Another key practice is asking the AI to generate unit tests early on, or even adopting a full Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach, so every stage of the process is validated. This way, we maintain strong control over what the AI produces instead of letting it run unchecked. As programmers, our role then shifts slightly moving away from just writing lines of code toward acting more like software architects, who design the structure, oversee the workflow, and ensure the overall quality of the project while leveraging AI as a powerful assistant.

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JE Ramos

I did not realize it was a code rabbit pitch 😅

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arclight

If you don't want to define and understand a problem and do the work to solve it, why bother becoming a programmer?

Look, cosplay is a completely legitimate hobby. Go to an anime convention sometime - there are far more interesting cosplay subjects than "software developer".

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Leena Malhotra

Vibe coding” always feels fun in the moment. The cost shows up months later when no one remembers why a single line exists. Discipline is boring, but technical debt is worse

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Senna

AI adds a probabilistic, non-deterministic layer that obscures logic even further. With AI, we’re abstracting intent.

Interesting.

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Chanh Le

"Where vibe coding does shine"
I really like this point. To all developers, please do not apply AI to anywhere outside this list.