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The one-person problem<\/h2>\n

The part of the story that gets glossed over is that the person vibe-coding the solution is often the only one who knows how it works. <\/p>\n

Not “most familiar with it.” The only person.<\/p>\n

That’s the risk of vibe-coded software.<\/p>\n

I get the counterargument. My co-host David Leary made it to me on the show. These AI coding tools document themselves shockingly well.<\/p>\n

Flip into ask mode, and the tool explains how a feature works, even if you never wrote a single comment. The knowledge isn’t trapped in someone’s head. It’s trapped in the code, and the code can explain itself to anyone who asks.<\/p>\n

In theory.<\/p>\n

In practice, someone still has to know to ask. Someone still has to notice the thing is broken, know where to look, and trust what the AI tells them about a system they’ve never opened.<\/p>\n

How many firms have built that skill? I\u2019m guessing not many.<\/p>\n

We found this out the hard way at Earmark<\/h2>\n

Our AI course generator runs on a Zapier workflow I built years ago. Seventy-five steps. It worked great until it didn’t.<\/p>\n

It broke, and nobody else on the team could fix it. Nobody even knew it was broken, because nobody but me was positioned to notice.<\/p>\n

That’s a no-code tool, not custom software. It still created a single point of failure. Now scale that up to an audit platform that a Top 100 firm depends on every busy season.<\/p>\n

Think of it like the financial model nobody wants to touch<\/h2>\n

You’ve seen this before. Someone builds an Excel model so complex, with so many interlinked workbooks, that eventually they’re the only one who understands it.<\/p>\n

Everyone else is scared to click the wrong cell. The model works fine, right up until that person is out sick during crunch time or has left for a different firm entirely.<\/p>\n

Vendors sell you something else along with the software: a team that maintains it, documents it, and answers the phone when it breaks. That’s the actual product, not just the code.<\/p>\n

Vibe-code your own replacement, and you get the code but skip the team. You save the fee but inherit the redundancy problem.<\/p>\n

To be fair, buying from a vendor isn’t automatically safer. We recently lost data because our podcast streaming platform\u2019s interface was poorly designed, and its support team spent more time deflecting blame than fixing it.<\/p>\n

There are vendor risks, too. But there’s a company you can point to, a contract, and, in theory, more than one person who understands the product.<\/p>\n

So what do you actually do with this?<\/h2>\n

If you’re going to vibe-code a tool your firm depends on, keep in mind the $30,000 isn’t the whole cost. <\/p>\n

Budget for redundancy from day one. Document it properly, not with AI-generated comments buried in the code, but with a plain-English explanation a second person could follow under pressure.<\/p>\n

Better yet, train a backup person to actually understand it, not just to ask the AI what it does.<\/p>\n

The tools are now good enough that almost anyone can build something. They aren\u2019t so good that just anyone can maintain what someone else built once that someone is gone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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