I Got Addicted to Vibe Coding (I almost lost everything)

An eight-minute comic video, uploaded on 10 October 2026, by Nessie, a self-taught developer building a multiplayer game and its website. Her boss gets the team Claude Code; after hours stuck on a connection bug in a backend with thin documentation, she hands it to the agent and it’s fixed in about seven minutes. That’s “the beginning of the end”. She starts prompting feature after feature, accepting whatever commands the agent wants to run (coding in creative mode, she calls it), feels ten times as productive, and runs into the five-hour limit, then burns her whole weekly allowance in three days feeding testers’ ideas straight in. Then a tester reports that login is broken, she opens the code and can’t follow it. The “almost lost everything” of the title is a skit gag, not a real crisis.

She rebuilt with much closer supervision, and made this video in the desktop-style editing tool that came out of it, though she says the hand-holding was so heavy she might as well have written it herself, and it soured her on how AI is sold. Her lessons: code an agent writes that works today is not code that keeps working, so write it yourself or read every line; and she no longer expects things to go back to normal after a bubble pops. Beginners are falling further behind, because projects are swapping beginner-friendly documentation for AI integration (her example is Rive), while the baseline of what one person can build rises fast. She finds that exciting and worrying in equal measure.