Suddenly, everyone cares about code quality.

Security. Best practices. “Real engineering.” The holy traditional process. It’s almost moving — watching people rediscover standards right after AI tools got popular. And look, fair. Vibe coding can absolutely produce bugs. It can ship weird edge cases. It can generate code that works today and breaks tomorrow. It can even create unsafe systems if the builder doesn’t understand what they’re doing. But here’s the selective part: Bad development didn’t start with vibe coding. We’ve been shipping messy software for years with “proper teams,” “proper processes,” and “proper roles.” We had: Engineers Standups Sprint planning Jira tickets PR reviews QA cycles Retro meetings about why production broke And still? Confusing products. Data leaks. Friday hotfixes. Security built on hope and a checkbox. So no — the debate isn’t vibe coding vs coding. That’s just a clean story: hero vs villain. The real debate is knowledge vs confidence. If you have strong product intuition, AI-assisted coding mak