Vibe Coding Pitfalls: Deploying AI Projects Is Harder Than It Looks

A developer shares lessons from deploying an AI astrology bot, highlighting that infrastructure as code is vital for vibe-coders. The project failed to make money and was shut down, but the deployment challenges—microservice costs, database hosting, and configuration lock-in—are universal. The author argues that text-based infrastructure files let AI help debug, unlike click-based UIs.