Vibe coding sky-high cloud bills spark debate: risk foresight is the real skill
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-14
waylybaye argues that after vibe coding led to sky-high cloud bills and outages, 'foreseeing danger' is an underrated core skill for engineers: AI optimizes the happy path, while experienced developers spend most effort preventing and handling failures. sujingshen adds that decisions are your own to pay for—if you hand everything to AI without reading agreements, setting safety policies or fallbacks, the bill is tuition.
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