Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨pete_link@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.zdnet.com/article/bad-vibes-how-an-ai-agent-coded-its-way-to-disaster/

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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BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They could also hire me and get the same quality work as the AI. 😌
  
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- PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Easily. AI is a sham
  
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- thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You can hire a couple for that money.
  
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  - ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Good software engineers should make a lot more than 48k
    
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I guess AI does create coding jobs. In a roundabout way.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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- scytale@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  A lot of have pivoted. When I attend conferences, most of the vendor sponsors are basically “this same product that provides this common service, but with AI integration”.
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    And probably 90% of them are just building on top of OpenAI’s API, and OpenAI still don’t know how to become profitable. It feels like the dot com bubble all over again.
    
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ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I love this for them

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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Play stupid games…

Seriously, unsandboxed?

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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- Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  there's no spelling mistake here. whether or not you agree it can be a verb, "shutdown" definitely can be a noun. it's not that AI shut it down, it's that this happened during the shutdown
  
  a lot of style guides recommending correcting obvious errors that are of little relevance to the story anyways
  
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