Tag: engineering economics
Vibe Coding Is a Loan: The Production Bill Arrives
In eighteen months, vibecoding went from a viral post to a dictionary entry to a body count of production incidents. We trace the term’s origin, the adoption wave, and the 2025–2026 research record — then go deeper: why maintainability decays in ways that compound, why microservices amplify rather than contain the damage, and why review time is now measured at five times what it was. The verification layer, not the creation layer, decides who survives this era.
