Vibe Coding is going to leave a graveyard of abandoned production codebases. I wrote a Manifesto to fix it — and I need your help.

I've been shipping software for over 25 years. I've survived the waterfall-to-agile transition, the monolith-to-microservices scramble, and the cloud migration era. But what's happening right now with AI-assisted coding feels different — and not entirely in a good way. Let me show you three things I've witnessed in the last six months. Each one is real. Each one is becoming common. Scene 1: The Feature That Worked in the Demo A team uses Cursor to build a new authentication feature in 3 days instead of 3 weeks. The demo is flawless. Sprint review: applause. Two sprints later, a completely unrelated AI-generated change silently breaks the auth flow. Nobody knows why. The AI that wrote the original feature is stateless — it has no memory of what it decided or why. The team spends 4 days debugging code nobody fully wrote and nobody fully understands. Scene 2: The Junior Dev Who Can't Review the PR A 400-line PR lands in review. AI-generated. Fast. Clean-looking. The junior developer appro