A developer spent 7 months vibe-coding a GPU-aware Kubernetes TUI (k10s) with Claude, then archived it after the codebase collapsed under its own weight. The post dissects five concrete failure patterns that emerge from AI-assisted coding without architectural guardrails: AI builds features not architecture (leading to god objects), the god object as default AI artifact, velocity illusion causing scope creep, positional data as a time bomb, and AI mishandling state transitions causing data races. Each tenet includes real code examples from the failed codebase and specific CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md directives to prevent the same mistakes. The author is rewriting from scratch in Rust, doing architecture design by hand before any AI-generated code.
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