'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a devs entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "vibe coding", in which developers utilise AI tools to generate code rather than writing it manually by themselves. While that might sound like a good idea on paper, it seems getting an AI to do your development for you doesn't always pay off.

Jason Lemkin, an enterprise and software-as-a-service venture capitalist, was midway into a vibe coding project when he was told by Replit's LLM-based coding assistant that it had "destroyed months of [his]...