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Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said

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    David Heinemeier Hansson 26 Aug 2026

    And we ended up with a lot of PRs that individually perhaps could have been justified for a hot moment, taken all together, destroyed the architecture of the system. And we actually had to clean up manually, mop it up by hand, by human hand, to get back to an architecture that felt cohesive and coherent.
    spoken · official transcript hear it at 0:16:59 · all korrents from this recording

    DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com

First recorded here 26 Aug 2026 · How quotes work

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