Vibe coding is creating overconfident engineers. (a rant)

We used to debate architecture. Tradeoffs. Patterns. We had opinions about systems, if not, we used to study them. Now we read the AI output, it looks reasonable, we ship it. Without even thinking of other options.

We are losing the habit of even asking the question. System thinking is a muscle. And muscles atrophy.

There is a difference between an engineer who uses AI and an engineer who has outsourced their thinking to it.

Most of us cannot tell which one we have become!