A Developer Deleted Half His Codebase After Letting LLMs Write It
How Not to Build a Music Player
After internet blackouts in Iran pushed him to build an offline music player in Zig, Ali Chraghi tried vibecoding with a gifted Claude Max subscription. Anthropic banned his account for being in Iran, and Codeberg's no-AI policy forced a full rewrite. Four months of line-by-line review later, nearly half the code is gone and the player is more robust than before.
I was surprised by my own ignorance and how much LLMs like to complicate stuff.