Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Are engineers the unsung heroes of vibe-coded projects?

23 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Charles Hudson and another speaker) arguing that "vibe coding" has limits: some projects become too fragile or misbuilt to be fixed incrementally and require skilled professionals to rebuild or replace them. Hudson suggests sometimes the right advice is to discard and rebuild, and the other speaker compares this to a car mechanic declaring a repair is necessary.

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I don't think this is like a knock on vibe coding. I think it just means that there are going to be cases where people build things that are beyond their ability or the system's ability to naturally fix. And you're going to need professional, talented people to come in. I'll be curious to see if at some point, some of these vibe fixers come in and just say, you should just throw this thing away. Build you, build you. Somebody does the same thing for half the price it would take for me to fix your Frankenstein thing.
Yeah. And you, as the product minded person, are probably none the wiser of kind of being like, okay, I guess you're right. It's like going to a car mechanic shop and them telling like, this thing is broken. You're going to have to.