Vibe Coding Needs Telemetry

Originally published at: https://www.aquilabdullah.com/your-post-url I recently noticed something strange in the backend telemetry of a code base that I was working on. A single API request was triggering more than twenty database calls. The code looked perfectly reasonable, but the telemetry told a very different story. A Simple Vibe Coding Exercise Imagine you're building a simple profile endpoint. You ask your AI assistant to create something that returns: user information the sports they participate in posts they've written events they're attending A reasonable implementation might look like this: user = get_user ( user_id ) sports = get_user_sports ( user_id ) posts = get_user_posts ( user_id ) events = get_user_events ( user_id ) return { " user " : user , " sports " : sports , " posts " : posts , " events " : events } At first glance, this looks great. Each function is small. Each responsibility is clear. The code is readable and easy to test. From the perspective of local code