The Vibes are off: Foundations Matter
AI agents and "vibecoding" are everywhere. Derek Ross vibes 7 apps before breakfast, junior engineers panic, and everyone's convinced coding is dead. Just vibe it and ship it, right? Reality check: We're 32 months past Dario Amodei's "AI will write 90% of code in 6 months" prediction (thanks for counting, Primeagen). The vibed apps are all falling apart in production. Every time someone ships code they don't understand, a kitten dies. That's just physics, ask Claude to explain it to you and vibe write a paper about it. **The nuance matters:** In the hands of experienced developers who actually review the code, AI tools are game-changing, they are actually time savers and actually helpful. But skip the long and tedius manual review and it's a disaster. We're seeing vibed apps get hacked daily from data leaks to services hijacked for crypto scams and basic security practices ignored entirely. Still not convinced? Look at our infrastructure fragility: Cloudflare and AWS crash regularly now it's become a meme even among non technical people, and Windows had an RCE vulnerability in *Notepad*. NOTEPAD!!! The fundamentals still matter. Maybe more than ever.