Vibe Coding in Production: What's Holding Us Back?

Vibe coding techniques need to be adapted when you work on production applications with AI. I walk through some challenges and solutions that I've found helpful on real projects. I'm going to share some experiences from a few months ago, about how I expanded the scope of my use of agents from vibe coded apps to working on real world problems in production. I had been coding with AI agents for a while now: greenfield scripts, prototypes, and features I could build and throw away. Early on in this experimentation, I set my sights on building tools and practices for safely using AI in production. I knew I had to maintain and operate the code I developed. So as I explored AI by building isolated and greenfield code, I made mental notes of techniques that wouldn't work and those that I could bring to a production infrastructure. There are numerous articles and posts describing techniques for vibe coding well. But there isn't enough documentation describing the practices around customizing y