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Ben Awad: 'hand-written code is dead'. I agree with the premise, disagree with the conclusion.
In January 2026, Ben Awad posted a video that went viral: 'hand-written code is basically dead'. Months later, real cases started confirming the thesis — a single prompt modifying 500,000 lines, games with 95% AI-generated code, Steve Yegge building agents that coordinate agents. I agree manual typing is dying. I disagree that means the end of critical code review.
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Vibe coding: hype, reality, and when it actually makes sense
In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy named vibe coding in a tweet. A year later, he himself called the term passé and adopted a new one: agentic engineering. Between the two ends of that arc lies a trail of careless prompts, exposed databases, and one embarrassing statistic: 45% of AI-generated code carries an OWASP vulnerability.