Pattern: Vibe Coding Deskilling Loop — Auth Bug Surfaces Total Debugging Skill Atrophy After AI-Assisted Sprint

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A 161-upvote, 60-comment r/SaaS thread documents a practitioner who built an MVP in 3 days with Claude, then spent 4 hours unable to diagnose a basic auth bug because they had never understood the code they shipped. The pattern described — velocity without comprehension creating a debugging dead-end — is distinct from the 'verification blindness' framing: it's about skill atrophy, not just review gaps. The thread consensus is that vibe coding requires pairing rapid generation with deliberate comprehension checkpoints to avoid accumulating debugging debt that no LLM can resolve.