Why Vibe Coding Isn’t the End of the Software Engineer
THE SO WHAT
If a warehouse owner and a designer are shipping apps via prompts, the constraint in software is no longer typing code — it’s owning architecture, verification, and integration. Teams that don’t retrain engineers as product shapers and reviewers will get outbuilt by “non-technical” operators who move faster with AI copilots.
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