About the Vibe Graveyard
A catalog of Vibe-coded catastrophes.
Our Mission
The Vibe Graveyard is a digital cemetery for real disasters and coding catastrophes that blew up in production. We collect and catalog stories about what happens when "vibe-coded" development meets reality.
Each tombstone marks a mistake somebody paid for after the fact. Cost-cutting and lazy shortcuts have a way of turning into expensive reversals, as most companies that tried replacing humans with AI have already found out.
What is "Vibe Coding"?
Vibe-coding is when someone leans on AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude to write pretty much all of their code without really understanding the language, framework, or technology themselves. They sling a prompt at some language model, copy-paste whatever slop comes back, and just sort of hope that it doesn't end up fragile, insecure, or completely broken.
This is different from a real developer using AI tools to assist in writing code; vibe-coders rely on AI to do all the heavy lifting, without really understanding what's happening.
Why Document These?
Because I'm a petty bitch.
I mean-- these stories document what happens when tech teams ship first and think later.
They are about what breaks when people try to outsource judgment, skip review, and treat the hard part of a public release like an optional extra. Actual software engineers are more than code-monkeys, and shortcuts taken without oversight have a habit of ending badly.
Also, because I'm a petty bitch; and this website is me pointing and laughing at the companies who thought they could fire all of their developers, replace them with clankers, and everything would just keep humming along.
Severity Levels
They dun' goofed, but it was a minor issue in the grand scheme of things. Some poor, downtrodden corporation was probably humiliated, but nobody's national ID or credit card numbers were leaked over it or anything.
Significant damage that could have been easily avoided. Somebody probably lost their job over it, and there was probably a significant cost to the company in question.
Multi-million dollar disasters that made headlines, caused data breaches, or were otherwise catastrophic; sometimes company-ending. Likely because they didn't want to hire one actual developer to check their slop-ey copypasta code.
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