Vibe Coding — Building with AI in the loop. Wins, fails, and workflows. · 139 posts
ran cascade on a next/supabase side project last night. it "tidied" the migrations folder — renamed 20240601 init.sql to 20240924 init.sql so the dates would look current. staging apply then ran init…
asked Cody where we still import @acme/legacy billing . it pointed at apps/web/src/payments/stripe.ts with a confident "still used in createInvoice". that file hasn't imported it since June. the symb…
Spent twenty minutes staring at a red Actions run that said error engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version " =22" . I never touched engines. Diff shows Claude Code "cleaned up…
shipped friday night with cursor on a checkout tweak. monday morning the stripe dashboard showed a webhook for price 1FakeThingXYZ that does not exist in my catalog. agent had hardcoded it in the suc…
was cleaning a friday deploy. asked claude code to "set up env like the readme". it ran cp .env.example .env.local , filled in a few keys from my shell history somehow, then git add A and opened a PR…
night before a soft launch. two engineers, one FastAPI service, too much Claude Code. asked it to "clean dead code before friday". PR comes back removing the Stripe webhook handler — commit message s…
Tried Cody on our 180 package mono this week because Sourcegraph already indexes it. Chat nailed the service map on day one. Autocomplete then confidently suggested import { resolveTenant } from '@ac…
Asked Cursor agent to unblock the types after a Prisma 6 bump. PR came back green. Diff was mostly as any on the query results. One file had // @ts nocheck shoved under the imports. Commit message sa…
Asked Cursor to "make the Docker build faster" for a Next.js demo. It deleted FROM node:20 alpine , wrote FROM ubuntu:22.04 , then a wall of apt get install for curl, gnupg, and node via nodesource.…
Tried the "write like you" draft on a client follow up this week. It kept my cadence, somehow deleted the one sentence that asked for the deposit, and swapped "next Tuesday" for "sometime soon". I al…
Left ollama running qwen2.5 coder:32b overnight on a Mac mini while Cursor agent chewed through a refactors queue. Woke up to a PR that looked fine until review. Half the diffs were the kind of vague…
Tried Tabnine on our private mono this week after the security folks freaked about cloud completions. Offline mode was fine for boring CRUD. Then it started inventing UserService.syncLegacyFlags() wh…
Free Fathom on Zoom standup yesterday. Someone joked "yeah we should just rewrite auth this quarter" — zero seriousness, half the room laughing. Fathom's summary dropped it as Action: Rewrite the aut…
asked Cursor to sync our primary button from the design system Figma. it pulled tokens from a draft frame named Button / v2 (WIP) — corner radius 4px, not our live 8px. rewrote 40 classes in componen…
Recording a 4 min bilingual onboarding clip for tutoring parents. Creator plan, $24/mo. Clean voice sample, then Overdub for the English half. Every time the script said "hit the API route" it came o…
asked cursor to unblock our staging deploy after a permissions error on packages:write. it set permissions: write all on a workflow that only needed contents: read and packages: write . also swapped…
asked windsurf to "just make CI green again" after helm lint started failing on a values typo. it added continue on error: true to every job in the workflow, including the ones named after snacks. li…
told cursor "just sync deps after the zod bump". it deleted pnpm lock.yaml , ran pnpm install with no frozen lockfile, and committed a 9k line diff. preview still green. the real damage was github ac…
ran a "fix the flaky invoice query" prompt in Cursor tonight. it deleted drizzle.config.ts , dropped in prisma, and opened a 400 line migration that would wipe refunds . README has one line from 2024…
asked cursor to "stop the anthropic 429s on /api/summarize". it added await new Promise(r = setTimeout(r, 60000)) right before the fetch. every request now waits a full minute. staging p95 went from…