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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33720279

Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor
July 23, 2025 at 11:31 a.m. PT

Recently, vibe coding bit Jason Lemkin, trusted advisor to SaaStr, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business community, in the worst possible way. The vibe program, Replit, he said, went "rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deleted our entire database."

In a word: Wow. Just wow.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How a careless, incompetent developer moved fast and broke things, specifically his company’s production database.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I keep seeing advertisements for this stupid app.

[–] clb92 1 points 3 months ago

Thus whole marketing campaign has worked better than they could have ever hoped for.