Vibe coding is good enough for personal prototypes, but to build and deploy anything in production you need a few core engineering skills: - Decomposition: break big problems into smaller pieces - Iteration: start simple, improve step by step - Design for change: write code that is easy to adapt when requirements change (they always do!) - Simplicity first: avoid over-complicating solutions (AI often makes this mistake) - Testing: check your code against both normal and edge cases - Debugging: track down why actual behavior differs from what you expected - Optimization: make programs fast and efficient - Version control: manage changes and collaborate safely - Error handling: recover gracefully instead of crashing - Code reuse: build on existing solutions instead of reinventing - User experience design: make apps feel natural - Client–server architecture: understand how to split work between the frontend and the backend AI coding agents can help with many of these, but you still need to know what to ask for and when to reject their default suggestions.

Education is completely broken in the age of AI. Schools still insist that students shouldn't use LLMs for homework, which makes zero sense. It's like asking humans not to use fire after it was discovered. The best course of action is to embrace AI and teach them how to use it, but instead, all they are doing currently is encouraging them to cheat and avoid detection. Unfortunately, this means our next generation are either going to be clueless because they never applied AI or cheaters because they figured out how to game the system.

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