Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it

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Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. She called vibe coding a beautiful, endless cocktail napkin on which one can perpetually sketch ideas. But dealing with AI-generated code that one hopes to use in production can be “worse than babysitting,” she said, as these AI models can mess up work in ways that are hard to predict.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/vibe-coding-has-turned-senior-devs-into-ai-babysitters-but-they-say-its-worth-it/