Dont stress the spaghetti code in your vibe coded app

AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex will happily generate unreadable garbage, but that used to be expensive mainly because cleaning it up cost developer time. Now you can refactor bad code fast and cheap. The risk that actually bites is spaghetti infrastructure: the hosting, databases, auth, third-party APIs and AI providers your vibe coded product is wired into. Those are hard to leave, fail independently, multiply your security exposure, and can price you out as you grow. If your time is limited, ignore the code and fix the infrastructure.

Created: 26/05/2026

Taplio dark patterns

Signing up to Taplio took two minutes. Deleting the account took eleven screens of fake warnings, two bribes, two pointless surveys, and a "cancellation" I never asked for. A screen-by-screen walk through how a SaaS owned by Lempire engineers its exit flow to make you give up, and why none of it is an accident.

Created: 26/05/2026

You need to understand ROI to understand the value of AI

Linas Beliūnas reckons Peter Steinberger's $1.3m token spend could have bought six senior engineers for a year. That comparison falls apart the moment you remember the actual constraint: the work had to ship in 30 days, not twelve months. To match that output in the same window you'd need 72 senior engineers — hired and onboarded in zero hours, working with zero errors, no sick days, no management overhead, then fired on the last day with no offboarding and no goodbye cake. Compare like with like and the value of AI, along with the reason it's going to gut tech employment, gets very hard to argue with.

Created: 21/05/2026