The Death of 'Vibe Coding': How AI is Shipping Garbage Code to Your Startup

## The Illusion of "Vibe Coding"
The rise of tools like Cursor and Copilot has created a new generation of developers: the *Vibe Coders*. They don't understand system architecture; they just ask the AI to generate code blocks until the screen shines.

The problem? For a quick MVP, it works perfectly. For a "Mission Critical" operation? It's the fastest path to systemic failure.

### The Invisible Cost of AI-Generated Code
When a startup relies on code that nobody on the team truly understands, scalability dies:
1. **Security Flaws:** AIs lack business context. They generate endpoints without heavy validation, exposing sensitive customer data.
2. **Degraded Performance:** Instead of optimizing rendering (React Server Components, edge caching), generated code tends to ship entire heavy libraries directly to the user's browser.
3. **Impossible Refactoring:** When a bottleneck occurs and the code has no tests or clean architecture, the team collapses trying to fix something they didn't build themselves.

### The RET Protocol: AI + Precision Engineering
We embrace AI, but we do not outsource responsibility to the machine. AI types fast; we design the architecture.

> The true value of a Senior Software Engineer today is not "writing code," but knowing exactly which code **NOT** to write.

Run away from agencies selling "AI-generated velocity" if they don't guarantee **human-written stability.**