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Original: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/uncomfortable-truth-about-vibe-coding
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Summary
A February 2026 article on Red Hat Developer argues that vibe coding is fast and genuinely useful for prototypes and small self-contained projects, but that projects built without specifications tend to hit a wall around three months, when changes start breaking unrelated features because the code has become the only record of intent. It recommends spec-driven development — treating specifications as the version-controlled single source of truth and regenerating from them — while keeping vibe coding for exploration and for units small enough to verify with a unit or functional test, and stresses that developers still need technical understanding to write a workable spec.