About the Vibe Graveyard
A catalog of Vibe-coded catastrophes.
Our Mission
The Vibe Graveyard is a digital cemetery dedicated to preserving the memory of the spectacular disasters and coding catastrophes that went hilariously wrong. We collect and catalog real stories of when "vibe-coded" development meets the harsh reality of production environments.
Each tombstone in our graveyard represents a lesson learned the hard way, a reminder that sometimes the best intentions and "quick fixes" can lead to the most expensive mistakes.
What is "Vibe Coding"?
Vibe-coding is when someone leans on AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude to write most (or all) of their code without really understanding the language, framework, or technology themselves. They sling prompts at some language model, copy-paste whatever slop comes back, and hope that it doesn't end up fragile, insecure, or completely broken.
Why Document These?
These stories serve as cautionary tales for the tech industry. They highlight the importance of proper development processes, code review, and the dangers of letting enthusiasm override expertise. Most of all, they remind us that shortcuts - without wisdom and oversight - can lead to disaster.
Hall of Infamy
Our graveyard catalogs disasters across various categories:
- CEO Coding Cringe: When executives decide to "help" with "development".
- Marketing Misadventures: Marketing teams who think they understand technical systems beyond their usual role of just making unrealistic promises about them while real developers cringe into a pretzel.
- Power-tripping PMs: Product managers who try to bypass developers entirely. "Here, I 'made' this by copying and pasting our Jira stories into ChatGippity... You can see it at localhost:8080." ಠ_ಠ
- Copy-Paste Catastrophes: Even worse than the copypasta you found on Stack Overflow without taking the time to understand it, vibe-copypasta is even worse. The AI does not know your company's legacy of broken cludges; all it will do is silently add to them.
Severity Levels
They dun' goofed, but it was a minor issue in the grand scheme of things. Nobody's credit card numbers were leaked over it.
Significant damage that could have been easily avoided. Somebody might've lost their job over it.
Multi-million dollar disasters that made headlines, caused data breaches, or were otherwise catastrophic, potentially company-ending moves, all because they didn't want to hire one actual developer to check their slop-ey copypasta code.
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Have a vibe-coding disaster story to share? Help us build this digital memorial to technical hubris and well-intentioned chaos.
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