The tech debt from vibe coding is real, but it's a different kind of debt than traditional tech debt. Traditional debt comes from shortcuts you knew were wrong. Vibe coding debt comes from code that works but nobody on the team fully understands — which is worse because you can't estimate the cost of fixing it. The fix isn't "stop vibe coding." It's adding a conventions layer that prevents the worst patterns, and treating AI-generated code with the same review rigor as code from a new hire. The teams that do this well actually accumulate less debt than traditional teams because the agent follows the conventions file more consistently than humans follow style guides.