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This is My First and Last "Vibe Coded" Product

This is My First and Last "Vibe Coded" Product

via Dev.to WebdevAazan Noor Khuwaja

If you think you can just sit back and let Copilot or Cursor build a complex desktop-to-browser architecture for you, let me stop you right there. The AI completely f*cked my codebase at the start. It wrote brilliant functions, confidently deleted them two prompts later, and introduced bugs that kept me awake for days during my sessional exams. This is the story of how a simple script to survive load shedding turned into a two-week debugging nightmare, and why FlashYT is the last app I will ever "vibe code." Story: If you live in Pakistan, you know the drill. You plan out your day, sit down to grind through some university lectures or a new tech skill, and suddenly—the power goes out. The Wi-Fi dies. To survive the load shedding, I started using yt-dlp to download my study materials. But let's be honest: I am lazy. Having to open a terminal, paste a URL, and manually type out format flags every single time I wanted a specific 1080p video was a terrible user experience. I just wanted a

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