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Gemini turning a long prompt into a working app — plus auto-fixing its own runtime bug — is another data point that the constraint is shifting from coding to problem framing and review. For internal tools, assume motivated employees will increasingly bypass product and eng with “vibecoded” apps, so you need guardrails around data access, deployment, and maintenance, not just Jira intake.
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