The Day AI Agents Broke My System And Why I Built Phylax

The Wake-Up Call: Why I Built Phylax I used to vibecode like everyone else: Describe what I want. Let the AI build it. Iterate fast. Ship faster. It feels like magic… Until it doesn’t. My wake-up call came through four incidents that happened in the span of a few weeks. Each one was worse than the last. 1. Incident - Silent Deletion I was vibecoding a new tool. The agent was generating modules, refactoring files, moving fast. Then I noticed something terrifying: Entire directories were gone. Configuration files. API keys. Database migrations. Months of work. Vanished.