Vibe coders ship sloppy AI-pair-coded SaaS.

Claude Code is genuinely useful. It can scaffold a full stack in an afternoon, refactor a module without breaking the tests, and write the boilerplate you'd never write yourself. The problem isn't Claude. The problem is that most setups have no guardrails — no memory of past decisions, no protection against the named catastrophes, no honest accounting of what it can and can't do without supervision.

The result is a specific failure mode: a vibe coder who ships fast, ships confidently, and every few months loses two weeks to a disaster that was entirely predictable and entirely preventable. The service-role key that sat on the public site. The production table that vanished during a "small" migration. The force-push that erased two months of authentication work.

These aren't hypotheticals. They're a catalog — things I've personally seen, mostly from people too embarrassed to admit it publicly.