Vibe Coding vs. Production reality

The image is from X, been thinking about it since I saw it. Vibe coding is real. The 80/20 part is genuinely faster now, and PoCs that took a week take an afternoon. But I keep watching people try to ship vibe-coded tools as real products. Asset management systems. GRC modules. Internal RAG. The demo works, the room is impressed, and then the moment you try to roll it past the author's machine the whole thing falls apart. The stuff below the waterline isn't optional. Auth, secrets handling, what happens when the LLM vendor deprecates a model or changes pricing, GDPR when external models touch internal data, audit logs, rate limiting, multi-tenancy. None of this shows up in the demo and all of it shows up the moment someone else uses the thing. PoCs are easier than ever. Products are not.