This comment ignores the key insight of the article. Design is what matters most now. Design is the difference between vibe coding and software engineering.

Given a good design, software engineers today are 100x more productive. What they produce is high quality due to the design. Production is fast and cheap due to the agents.

You are correct, there will be a reckoning for large scale systems which are vibe coded. They author is also correct, well designed systems no longer need frameworks or vendors, and they are unlikely to fail because they were well designed from the start.

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goostavos 2 hours ago | parent [-]

>software engineers today are 100x more productive

Somebody needs to explain to my lying eyes where these 100xers are hiding. They seem to live in comments on the internet, but I'm not seeing the teams around me increase their output by two orders of magnitude.

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MrDarcy an hour ago | parent [-]

They are the people who have the design sense of someone like Rob Pike but lack his coding skill. These people are now 100x more capable than they were previously.

	▲	devsda 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is how you get managers saying "we have taken latest AI subscription. We expect you to be able to increase productivity and complete 5/10/100 stories per sprint from now on instead of one per sprint that we planned previously".
	▲	seabrookmx 8 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Citation needed. For both the existence of said people (how do you develop said design sense without a ton of coding experience?) and that they are 100x more productive.
	▲	vips7L an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No they’re not.