Vibe Coding Rescue — Fix AI-Generated Platforms | Scalexa

Vibe Coding Rescue — what we fix

Platforms built primarily with AI prompt-driven tools — Lovable, Cursor, v0, Bolt, Replit, Claude Code, GPT — without senior-engineer architectural review. The first 70% ships in two weeks. The next 30% takes nine months because state management is tangled, auth is broken, tests do not exist, and every new prompt regresses two features.

Symptoms we see in 30+ rescue engagements

• Feature N+1 breaks features 1 through 5; no test suite to catch it
• State management spread across 12 contexts and 40 useEffects
• Auth using localStorage tokens instead of httpOnly cookies — easy XSS theft
• N+1 database queries — Supabase usage cost climbing every week
• Cloud bill at $1,200/month for traffic that should cost $80
• Mobile responsive broken; works only in the AI tool's preview pane
• Every senior engineer interviewed says "rewrite from scratch"

Process — Audit → Decide → Refactor → Hand back

Step 1: 1-2 week Code Audit ($3K-$5K). Senior engineer reads the codebase end-to-end and writes a remediation SOW with module-by-module risk scoring and defensible hour estimates. Step 2: you decide — refactor with us, your team, or another vendor. Step 3: 4-8 week targeted refactor ($15K-$60K typical). Tests written before the refactor, not after. State consolidated, auth hardened, queries fixed, cloud right-sized. Step 4: clean codebase delivered with a CLAUDE.md / CURSOR.md style guide so your team can keep using AI tools safely on top of it.

When we recommend rebuild instead

About 5% of cases. Triggers: data model is fundamentally wrong AND fewer than 100 users; framework or runtime choice is genuinely inappropriate (e.g. building a real-time trading platform on Lovable); codebase is so deeply coupled that any change breaks five unrelated features.