YOU'RE DOING VIBE CODING WRONG: HERE'S HOW TO DO IT RIGHT

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Vibe coding can accelerate development when used strategically for low-risk tasks, such as personal scripts, static sites, and prototypes. However, it becomes dangerous when applied to security-critical systems, including authentication, payment processing, or healthcare applications. Common pitfalls include AI-generated security vulnerabilities, accumulating technical debt through prompt-driven architecture sprawl, and debugging code that developers don't understand. To code responsibly, developers need foundational coding knowledge, must break projects into testable units, validate all AI outputs, maintain version control, and choose popular and well-documented frameworks and libraries.