Vibe Code Cleanup

The industrial revolution of our time started in late 2024 when LLMs started being useful, and then everything changed:

There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

— Andrej Karpathy, AI researcher

By the end of 2025, the world was blown away by the new reality: anyone can write software now.

The bad news is that an LLM is a text-prediction machine, not capable of true reasoning or creativity. All LLMs have a specific failure mode: they’re confidently wrong.

LLMs are genuinely useful tools, but they need precise guidance, guardrails, and acceptance criteria to stay useful at scale. The general public has no chance to identify the problems that are confidently created until it is often too late.

If you shipped fast with an LLM and your codebase now feels brittle, you’re not alone.

— Jan Klan, chief at Tactic Media

The good news is you now have something valuable that was difficult to obtain before vibe coding: a working proof of concept. This PoC demonstrates that your idea is viable, provides momentum for further development, and serves as a foundation for your next phase.

From here, we can help in one of two ways:

1. Clean up what you have: As long as your PoC aligns with our Software Development offering, we can apply guardrails, bring it up to production standard, and keep moving.
2. Rewrite it properly: use the PoC as a specification and build the real system on solid foundations. This would be our recommended approach for the next few years.

Let’s Talk about how we can help you move forward.