🥩 Red Meat Friday: Vibe Coding vs. System Engineering (opens in new tab)

Yusuf Aytas has a great post that explores the difference between a vibe coder and a software engineer. He plays it straight and says, basically, that vibe coding may be fine for a proof of concept or for a one-off internal job but as soon as you get to the merge stage you need a system engineer. The issue, he says, is ownership. Once code is merged, someone has to own it, understand it, and maintain it. That’s most often impossible with vibe code. Usually, no one can understand it or its imp...