The team's AI coding tools are live. First week - output is genuinely impressive. PR count is up. Everyone's excited.
At the sprint review, the board looks the same.
Half the PRs are still waiting on review. Several came back with QA flags. A few were blocked by a requirements question nobody had answered. The code was faster. The sprint wasn't.
This is where most vibe coding rollouts stall. Not because the tools don't work - they do. But because the developer changed how they work and everything around the developer didn't. This post is about what actually has to shift at the developer level - and what traps to watch for along the way.
This is Post 1 in the Vibe Thinking series. If you haven't read the intro yet, start there - it explains why developer-only transformation doesn't move the sprint.
