Don't just add meatballs to your spaghetti code. When your app is vibe-coded, you need to spend time to turn it into a functional application. No shortcuts.

Ibrahim Diallo

A developer shares a firsthand experience using an AI coding agent (GLM-5 via z.ai) to build a PHP media manager for a personal blog. The AI generated ~5,000 lines of spaghetti code in 12 minutes, but it took 10 hours of debugging, restructuring, and rewriting to produce a maintainable 1,254-line codebase. Key issues included incorrect file includes, missing session_start() calls, SQLite permission quirks, and conflicting system prompts causing Node.js code generation. The author reflects on the real cost of AI-generated code: the cleanup and comprehension burden often negates the speed gains, and deploying code you don't understand is a liability.

AI Did It in 12 Minutes. It Took Me 10 Hours to Fix It