That was the theory, but it ran straight into the reality that most of the time “throwaway prototyping code” gets shipped straight to production and never updat

That was the theory, but it ran straight into the reality that most of the time “throwaway prototyping code” gets shipped straight to production and never updated, because it’s addressing real needs right now and there’s no time to fix it because a dozen other feature requests and support issues have arrived in the meantime. The quip that “there’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution” has been a truism of software engineering since long before AI arrived on the scene, vibe coding is just making the problem much worse.