Vibe Coding Needs Telemetry

Originally published at: https://www.aquilabdullah.com/your-post-url I recently noticed something strange in the backend telemetry of a code base that I was working on. A single API request was triggering more than twenty database calls. The code looked perfectly reasonable, but the telemetry told a very different story. A Simple Vibe Coding Exercise Imagine you're building a simple profile endpoint. You ask your AI assistant to create something that returns: user information the sports they participate in posts they've written events they're attending A reasonable implementation might look like this: user = get_user(user_id) sports = get_user_sports(user_id) posts = get_user_posts(user_id) events = get_user_events(user_id) return { "user": user, "sports": sports, "posts": posts, "events": events } At first glance, this looks great. Each function is small. Each responsibility is clear. The code is readable and easy to test. From the perspective of local code correctness, this is good c