I deliberately vibe-coded a real product end-to-end. Here's what AI couldn't do for me A few months ago I decided to run a deliberate experiment: build and ship a real product using AI as much as humanly possible. The Chrome extension itself, the backend, the marketing website at zinkforge.com, the brand assets, the SEO content pipeline, the analytics. The lot. I wanted to know how far vibe coding actually goes when you push it into production, not into toy projects. The product is Mail2Follow , a Chrome extension that adds follow-up tracking and open detection inside Gmail. It is live on the Chrome Web Store, the Edge Add-ons store, the Google Workspace Marketplace, and integrated with Zapier. On top of it I also built an autonomous SEO content system: a seven-agent setup that picks topics, writes posts, generates images, and translates everything for me on a cron that I described in more detail here . This article is about everything that experiment taught me.…