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submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor
July 23, 2025 at 11:31 a.m. PT

Recently, vibe coding bit Jason Lemkin, trusted advisor to SaaStr, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business community, in the worst possible way. The vibe program, Replit, he said, went "rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deleted our entire database."

In a word: Wow. Just wow.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

I'll likely be spending $8,000 a month

You can hire an actual programmer for that kind of money. Someone with years of experience who knows what they are doing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

They could also hire me and get the same quality work as the AI. ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[-] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Easily. AI is a sham

[-] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

I guess AI does create coding jobs. In a roundabout way.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

I love this for them

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

The funny part is that Replit has billboard ads along the 101 in Silicon Valley that say "vibe code, safely"

I didn't realise repl.it has pivoted to vibe coding. It used to be similar to CodeSandbox or jsfiddle - a sandbox for writing and running code.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

shutdown

Hey SJVN! When you see someone making an obvious spelling mistake, you use [sic] to show you're leaving the mistake as-is.

Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

there's no spelling mistake here. whether or not you agree it can be a verb (probably not), "shutdown" definitely can be a noun. it's not that AI shut it down, it's that this happened during the shutdown

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