Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor
July 23, 2025 at 11:31 a.m. PT
Recently, vibe coding bit Jason Lemkin, trusted advisor to SaaStr, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business community, in the worst possible way. The vibe program, Replit, he said, went “rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deleted our entire database.”
In a word: Wow. Just wow.
Hey SJVN! When you see someone making an obvious spelling mistake, you use [sic] to show you’re leaving the mistake as-is.
Thanks!
there’s no spelling mistake here. whether or not you agree it can be a verb (probably not), “shutdown” definitely can be a noun. it’s not that AI shut it down, it’s that this happened during the shutdown