I started a side project that was supposed to be 100% vibe coded (because I have a similar view as you). I'm using go and Bubble Tea for a TUI interface. I wanted mouse interaction, etc.. It turns out it defaulted to bubble tea 1.0 (instead of 2.0). The mouse clicks were all between 1 and 3 lines below where the actual buttons were. I kept telling it that the math must be wrong. And then telling it to use Bubble objects to avoid all this crazy math.

I am now hand coding the UI because the vibe coded method does not work.

I then looked at the db-agent I was designing and I explicitly told it to create SQL using the LLM, and it does. But the ACTUAL SQL that it persists to the project is a separate SQL generator that it wrote by hand. The LLM one that gets displayed on the screen looks perfect, then when it comes down to committing it to the database, it runs an alternative DDL generator with lots of hard coded CREATE TABLE syntax etc... It's actually a beautiful DDL generator, for something written in like 2015, but I ONLY wanted the LLM to do it.

I started screaming at the agent. I think when they do take over I might be high up on their hit list.

Just anecdata. I still think in a year or two, we'll be right about clean code not mattering, but 2026 might not be that year.