went badly

[ went BAD-lee ]phrase

A label for a build, a prompt or a session that failed, published with the post-mortem still attached.

Explanation

The most useful thing anybody in this field can publish, and the rarest. Everyone shows the finished thing. The failure is where the knowledge you can actually reuse lives.

Related words

• the loop — The heart of vibe coding: ask, look at what came back, correct it, ask again, until it matches what you meant.
• verify ruthlessly — The closest thing this crowd has to a motto: use the tools hard, then check what comes back without mercy.

Prompts that deal with it

• Build Receipt — Make it write down what it actually did