'Vibe Coding Works. Until It Doesn't.' — Limitations Thread Goes Viral at 57K Views

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A thoughtful thread breaking down the vibe coding failure mode hit 57K views: 'You open ChatGPT, Lovable, Bolt. You describe what you want. You iterate a few times. And suddenly you have a working product. It feels fast. It feels magical.' The thread argues the magic consistently breaks at authentication, state management, and multi-user concurrency. This is the growing counterpoint to Karpathy's 'new baseline' narrative — even proponents acknowledge that vibe coding has a ceiling, and hitting it without the skills to debug is where real damage happens.