Vibecoding to create clones of useful software produces Gilded Turds by default.

"I vibecoded a clone of X app" really means "I vibecoded something that looks like that app."

The LLMs are great at making it look right, not work right.

You never would have bothered to do it in the past, but also you would have had a better intuition for what works and what doesn't.

When someone else builds it that is super-competent, you assume that if it looks right, it works right.

Very different!