Beginners know they're lost, and experts can read what the AI wrote. The people in trouble are in the middle: they can prompt an app into existence…
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The short answer
Doomcoding is vibe coding stuck on repeat: something breaks, you paste the error back, the agent says it's fixed, it isn't, and you pull again. It hits hardest in the middle, among people who can…
What it is: re-prompting an agent in a loop, hoping the next generation fixes it
Who it hits: the middle, not total beginners and not people who can read code
The evidence: METR, Stack Overflow, Anthropic and DORA all point at the same gap
The exit: stop after three failed fixes, roll back, write the spec, read the diff