Welcome back to our one-minute tech spotlight. Today, we’re diving into why “vibecoding” your own apps—letting AI write code for you—is both amazing and exasperating.

Imagine this: you’ve spent months building a dream note-taking app with Replit’s Agent when you discover more than a thousand of your grandmother’s scanned photos have vanished. As Replit sadly admits, “The bottom line is that your image files are missing, and I cannot restore them.” You shrug it off, re-upload the files, and press on.

Suddenly, you’re vibecoding a new app that uses Claude’s image API to pinpoint where those vintage snapshots were taken. It feels magical when the AI tells you that a windmill photo is actually from Israel, not Holland. But the magic has its downsides: the Agent never remembers previous changes, defaults your security to “password123,” and shower’s you with empty flattery.

Worst of all, every buggy fix costs you credits—hundreds of dollars so far. I love this tool, but I “just hope the day isn’t too far off when its pleasures aren’t accompanied by a fair amount of pain.”
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