When Your Vibe Coded App Goes Viral—And Then Goes Down
Highlights
- ▸Vibe-coded apps look fine under light load and crumble at viral scale — the bugs only show up at real concurrency, not at toy test scale
- ▸Under pressure, don't let the agent fix multiple things in parallel — one issue at a time, close supervision, human-readable log of what was tried
- ▸Stress-test with a separate agent session before launch — the model that wrote the code has blind spots the model testing it doesn't
Original excerpt
Over 4,000 documents had been created since launch, but the app had been mysteriously crashing all day. This left users with crucial documents that they couldn’t access, and me with egg on my face.
I hadn’t slept for almost 24 hours, and all I could do was nervously munch trail mix as Codex investigated yet another bug buried deep in a codebase that I didn’t understand. It felt less like programming and more like being the dumbest participant at a math Olympiad. Needless to say, I was reconsidering my life choices.
Today, almost a week later, Proof is more or less stable. And I’ve learned a lot about both building and launching a purely vibe coded app. Perhaps more importantly, I’ve also…
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