>when it's vibed it works, until it doesn't and then it's really hard to make it work again

Is it?

People have solved AI bugs with AI. If some vibe project eventually hits some bug and stops working, what exactly stops using AI to fix it? Is the idea that bugs will go beyond the limits of AI capability?

If you meant to say that when an AI vibe coded project beyond some complexity it's difficult for a human coder to manually go through all the code they didn't write, understand it, and find the issue, sure.

The problem is the _way_ AI will solve an AI bug. I've seen the loop countless times. There's a creeping complexity and brittleness that creeps in over time as more and more complexity is left purely to the LLM agent. It will become unsustainable without a human understanding and making course corrections at some point.

AI will simply code you into an architectural corner where you can’t get out of without a refactor.

AI companies are unable to fix the bugs in their own text editors for years… no AI cannot fix bugs, clearly.