My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test
A developer's business partner shipped a 5,236-line untested vibe-coded payments backend PR whose endpoints failed basic testing.
The author describes reviewing a pull request with 5,236 additions for a payments backend that a business partner generated largely with AI in a single day without testing. The PR's AI-written documentation included redundant boilerplate (e.g., 'returns 400 on error') but omitted operational details like where to obtain API keys, and the endpoints failed when tested. The post is a critical opinion piece on vibe coding and perceived skill atrophy among developers who rely on AI for everything.
- 5,236-line vibe-coded PR for a payments backend was untested
- Endpoints failed two minutes of basic testing; docs lacked API key info
- Author criticizes AI-assisted development and skill decline
- Piece is a personal opinion post, not a technical analysis
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The whole payments backend module, which I specifically told him to work together with me (I do frontend), was vibe-coded by him in one single day. How nice, to not have to discuss with the human being who will be using your code and knows what he wants, and instead work with a sycophantic "yes man" AI right?
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