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 cost-cutting and lazy shortcuts can lead to the most expensive mistakes, including having to publicly walk back hasty decisions - as most companies who've tried to replace 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 serve as cautionary tales for the tech industry.
Stories in the Vibe Graveyard illuminate the hard-won lessons - with well-earned consequences - of switching your brain off when it comes to the "hard part" of a project meant for public release. These stories highlight the importance of proper development processes and code review. They remind us that actual software engineers are more than just code-monkeys. They remind us that shortcuts - taken without wisdom and oversight - can lead, expeditiously, to catastrophe.
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; potentially even company-ending. Likely because they didn't want to hire one actual developer to check their slop-ey copypasta code.
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