AI Writes Code But We Own the Consequences
Professional engineering now incorporates many of the practices we used to call vibe coding. As a lifelong engineering and product leader, I find this development mildly offensive. Progress continues regardless of my feelings. We take a working demo and call it progress. We are starting to treat a green unit test suite and a simple smoke test as software engineering. This is an embarrassing instinct for someone who knows production exists and that customers pay for our service.