Vibe coding ships fast. It also ships broken. Veracode's 2025 analysis found 45% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities. Lightrun's 2026 report puts another number on it: 43% of AI-generated changes need manual debugging in production after passing QA.

Now those sites are in the wild, and we can recognize them on sight. Part one of this two-parter covers what gives a vibe-coded site away, why "looks fine" is doing all the heavy lifting in this corner of the web, and the cycle of product disappointment we're starting to see across DTC.

What's in this episode:

- The visible tells of a vibe-coded site

- Why AI-built sites confuse "it loads" with "it works"

- The judgment problem with AI coding tools

- The cycle of product disappointment in DTC e-commerce

- A real e-commerce site we audited that was clearly AI-built

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Part 2 covers what was actually broken under the hood and the false confidence problem in AI-generated code.

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