The current pearl-clutching about "vibe coding" would feel more credible if the entire tech industry hadn't been secretly running on vibes, StackOverflow, and carefully concealed impostor syndrome since the dawn of digital time. Let's be honest—the first successful program wasn't met with rigorous documentation but with a bewildered "It works? Don't touch it!" (A phrase that has launched a thousand production environments.)
"Works in production" has always been tech's true north star, outshining "can explain with academic precision" by several orders of magnitude. If we actually insisted on complete understanding before shipping, we'd still be debugging COBOL on punch cards, writing Medium articles about "holistic compiler awareness" by candlelight.
Consider the delicious irony of our abstraction addiction: Ruby floats atop C, which swims above assembly, which hovers over machine code, which whispers to logic gates. Most Ruby developers couldn't spelunk down even one layer if their stock options depended on it. Yet somehow—miraculously!—your timeline still loads, your DoorDash still arrives, and this very post still reaches your screen.
Software development thrives precisely because of its beautiful contradictions. The tension between theoretical purity and "ship it Friday" practicality isn't a bug; it's the feature that built Silicon Valley. Sure, many Node developers couldn't diagram an event loop if you spotted them the whiteboard markers and a CS degree, and yet the modern web exists anyway—beautiful, messy, forever under construction, and surprisingly functional (most of the time).
Perhaps what really fuels this anxiety isn't incompetence but uncomfortable truth: software has always been closer to art than science—a reality we've collectively agreed to ignore since the first "Hello World" blinked onto a screen, silently promising logic while delivering magic.
After all, if coding were purely logical, we wouldn't call our cleanest solutions "elegant," would we?
David KormushoffDavid Kormushoff - VP of Technology for AI, Security, Platforms and Secure AI Platforms
#vibecoding
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