Stop Vibe to Five

Just stop vibing from 9 to 5. End of story.

Okay, maybe not completely, but sheesh vibing all day, everyday doesn't go any where. The vibes are just shallow promises on the AI hype-train. Don't get me wrong, I think vibing is awesome, but it should never replace rigor. Vibing is great for idea generation and communication, but there must be a handoff to qualified engineers to take ownership of the ideas.

Regardless of what you may have heard, agentic AI is not the compiler of natural language for software. Sure, there's a corollary in that it abstracts the underlying software, but compilers are provable algorithms for converting programming languages to machine code. "Compiling" from natural language into software is a misnomer. The former is deterministic, while the latter is probablistic. You can't prove that an agent will give you a certain output. This logically extends to the entire software engineering process. You cannot prove that an agent will be aligned to your goals and objectives. You cannot prove that it implement a feature correctly, will not delete testing specs, or will not remove features.

So, yes, lean heavily on the agents to write code from your prompts, but don't stop reading and understanding! If anything, use the agent to accelerate your pace to understanding and rigor.