I Stopped Vibe Coding and Started Shipping: Task-Driven Development with AI

A year ago I wrote about how I built ExamGenius with vibe coding and Claude. The premise was simple: tell the AI what you want, it generates the code, you tweak, and in 20 hours you have a complete app that would normally take weeks. 85% time reduction. Working code. All good. A year later, the industry has moved at breakneck speed. Models are more capable, IDEs integrate AI natively, and more teams are shipping AI-generated code to production every day. But there's a problem nobody wants to admit: we're shipping massive amounts of code that nobody truly reviewed. It feels productive. But the result is often code that's hard to maintain, untested, poorly structured, and with zero traceability on why certain decisions were made. Vibe coding feels great until you have to debug something that neither you nor the AI remember writing. This post is about what comes after vibe coding. The real problem: without structure, even the best dev creates noise Let's be honest: AI produces code that m