Vibe Coding Best Practices: Feature Flags as a Safety Net
Vibe coding is genuinely changing how software gets shipped. It's not hard to see why: faster iterations, lower barrier to entry, more time in flow, and less time wrestling with boilerplate.
Production, on the other hand, doesn't care about your flow state.
You've probably been there: a feature that looked clean in every prompt, passed the automated tests, survived a quick review, and got merged without a second thought, only to silently misbehave for a slice of your users hours later. The AI didn't know about the edge case. You didn't catch it. And now you're debugging code you didn't quite write.
This doesn't mean vibe coding is the problem. It means AI-assisted development needs a production safety net. And what is one of the most practical safety nets for production features? Feature flags.
