Vibecoding without code review: 2.1 billion tokens wasted
Running GPT-6 Astra through Martin Fowler's 66-step refactoring checklist produced spaghetti code, 0 of 66 usable steps, 2,501 reported code smells and three resets in five days.
People who don't review the code are ignorant and you should not trust any of their opinions. Vibecoding without reviewing code experiment (spoiler 2.10 billion tokens wasted): Prd: - /goal: implement 66 refactoring steps by Martin Fowler - guardrailed with docs, skills & deterministic tools (linter, ast, codegen, jujutsu) - stack defined (Yuku, Typescript compiler) - gpt-6-astra Results: - spaghetti code everywhere - 66 refactorings 'working' but interface design horror - 0/66 usable without limitations - 2,501 reported code smells (wtf) - 3 resets used / 5 days later Thank god it did TDD how I asked (first cleanup pass: 562 production lines rem. & going)