--- title: Artifical Debt | daily.dev description: A personal anecdote describes a cousin whose vibe-coded basketball club web app broke right before an important game, with no way to fix it since he never... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/artifical-debt-yulo0dhp6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Artifical Debt | daily.dev og:description: A personal anecdote describes a cousin whose vibe-coded basketball club web app broke right before an important game, with no way to fix it since he never... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/artifical-debt-yulo0dhp6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yULo0dHp6.png og:image:alt: Artifical Debt og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Artifical Debt **[stitcher.io](https://daily.dev/sources/stitcher)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal anecdote describes a cousin whose vibe-coded basketball club web app broke right before an important game, with no way to fix it since he never understood the code. The author reflects that non-programmers have been quietly accumulating AI-generated technical debt over the past couple of years, and predicts more of these apps will start breaking down. AI tools are framed as powerful in skilled hands but risky when used by untrained people with no ability to debug the output. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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