You spent hours prompting, refining, and watching the "Artifacts" window work its magic. It felt like progress, until it didn't. Now, you’re staring at a codebase that feels wrong. The buttons overflow on mobile, the state management is a "hallucinated" mess, and every new prompt to fix it just introduces three more bugs.

This is the Cognitive Ceiling of AI-first development. You have a prototype that conveys the "vibe," but lacks the structural integrity of a real product. You’re stuck in a loop of diminishing returns, wasting your most valuable asset—your time—on technical debt that shouldn't even exist yet.