The cloud trap is repeating itself with vibe coding

In 2010, hosting was a solved problem. You no longer needed to set up servers. A cloud account, and you were good to go. AWS, Azure, and GCP kept growing, and suddenly, services could be provisioned with a single click. Free credits were handed out to anyone who asked.

Then came the bill. Cloud invoices skyrocketed as users climbed and the number of services multiplied. You were paying for an autoscaling cluster that only scales down. Thousands of dollars went to big tech every month, and nobody really questioned it, because just look at all the tech we can provision.

Sound familiar? History rhymes. The AI tool vendors like Lovable and v0 now promise even more. Build your application by prompting, and deploy it with a click. No tech team needed. You'd better keep that application under control, because the bill will come once it starts growing. Easy onboarding does not mean easy ownership.