No, vibe coding does not create tech debt.
Bad coders do.
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Bad coders do.
Vibe coding just lets bad coders create tech debt 100x faster.
If you’re vibe-coding without discipline, you’re not building software.
You’re building slopware.
Slopware “runs”. It “demos well”.
But the moment it faces real customers, real data, real traffic…
It breaks.
And with AI coding assistants, you can now generate more slopware faster than ever before.
The solution?
Follow these 8 principles of good coding — rewritten for the AI era: (They are timeless principles from my 20 years of coding experience)
- Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
- Single Responsibility
- Pyramid Principle
- Minimise Coupling
- Set Up Guardrails
- Colocate Related Code
- Favour Pure Functions
- Refactor Continuously
Each principle includes: → What it means → Symptoms when violated → Why it matters with AI → AI agent rules to enforce it → Follow-up prompts you can use
Swipe through to learn how to vibe-code without burning time, money, tokens — and eventually, your entire system.
Which principle do you find hardest to enforce with AI?
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