Vibe coding gets you 80% of the way. Nobody prepares you for the remaining 20%

AI can help build software quickly, but the real challenge is engineering discipline around architecture, testing, security, and operations.

The author says repeated failures in large AI-built projects showed that code generation alone is not enough for reliable products.

To address this, they created a 15-stage workflow for planning, building, hardening, shipping, running, and scaling AI-assisted software.

The core message: the biggest risk in AI-generated software is not speed, but the lack of controls needed for long-term maintainability and safety.