7 Models, 21 Runs: Only 7 Produced a Working T-Shirt Shop, Failures Were Silent Bugs
hazelcough · x · 2026-09-15
The author asked 7 models to build and deploy a novel t-shirt shop with payments and fulfillment; 7 of 21 runs produced a fully functional shop, which she calls impressive.
But many failures were nonobvious bugs that would fail silently in production — a vibing builder might not find out until the support emails and chargebacks show up.
Related event: Stripe Engineer's Test: Only 7 of 21 AI Runs Built a Working T-Shirt Shop(7 posts)→
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