2026-08-24

There’s a lot of talk about “vibe coding” at the moment.

But I don’t think that’s what I’m doing.

I’m not asking AI to build something I couldn’t build myself. I’m making architectural decisions, defining behaviour, testing outcomes, spotting when something feels wrong and correcting the direction.

I’m just not writing most of the code anymore.

The workflow has become something more like:

Specify → orchestrate → observe → test → correct → repeat.

And perhaps that’s the important change.

The code hasn’t disappeared. I can descend into it whenever I need to. But increasingly, I’m choosing the altitude at which my experience is most valuable.

Maybe software development isn’t disappearing.

Maybe developers are just moving up an abstraction layer.