Vibe coding feels faster until your project grows and you can't understand its history
Warm-Reaction-456 · reddit · 2026-08-24
The author shares a lesson from using AI agents for coding: initial velocity was high, but by week 6, they couldn't explain their own codebase when the client asked about specific logic. The realization was that while code generation is 10x faster, human reading speed hasn't changed, making understanding the code the new bottleneck. The author now reads the agent's output in real-time and logs decision reasoning to maintain codebase literacy.
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