“The line between letting an LLM cook and trusting an LLM to ship to production is dissolving faster than the engineering practices that should govern it.”
Willison has been the most honest voice on what these tools actually do, and he is sounding alarmed. Vibe coding was a joke about kids prompting their way to working apps. Agentic engineering was supposed to be the grown-up version with tests and code review. The two have collided and the people running production systems are about to find out how much of their job depended on someone reading the diff.