Clint Oram

When someone says they vibe coded their own CRM over a weekend, I believe the part about the weekend. I spent years running SugarCRM. With a CRM, the hard part starts on Monday. A weekend build shows the software can work once, with inputs the builder expected. The company needs it working in month six, when a login token expires, the builder is on vacation, and a customer asks who can see their data. Fred Brooks estimated in 1975 that a program anybody can run, repair, and connect to other systems costs nine times as much as one that runs for its author. Vibe coding made the author's version nearly free. The other eight-ninths of the bill comes due later. New Relic commissioned a 2026 survey of 200 US technology leaders. In code review, 94% rated AI-generated code higher quality than code people wrote. Over the prior six months, 82% reported at least one production failure tied to AI-generated code. A vibe-coded CRM has exactly one throat to choke, and it belongs to whoever wrote the prompts. When that person moves on, the company's customer records have no owner. I run about 20 AI agents. They're baling wire. The connection that tells my system I've sent an email quietly died more than a month before a watchdog agent noticed. Making my fleet a real application would take error reporting, security, compliance, and everything else a business depends on. An application is a promise that someone will still be there to fix it in month six. Full article in the reply.