SMRTR ProgrammingMay 6, 2026Hacker News

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

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Simon Willison reflects on how vibe coding and agentic engineering are blurring in his own workflow — even for production code. As AI agents like Claude Code become more reliable, he finds himself reviewing less code, raising uncomfortable questions about accountability and trust. He also explores how faster code output is disrupting design processes, code evaluation, and the entire software development lifecycle.

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