Vibe Coding Has Turned Senior Devs Into 'AI Babysitters' But They Say It's Worth It
TechCrunch, September 14,2025
Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded.
Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly working as a web developer. She's now building a startup, alongside her son, that creates custom machine learning models for marketplaces.
She called vibe coding a beautiful, endless cocktail napkin on which one can perpetually sketch ideas. But dealing with AI-generated code that one hopes to use in production can be 'worse than babysitting,' she said, as these AI models can mess up work in ways that are hard to predict.
She had turned to AI coding in a need for speed with her startup, as is the promise of AI tools.