Simon Willison writes vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer
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Posted Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like on his blog — confessed that as coding agents become trustworthy, even he no longer reviews code line by line, so the boundary between the two approaches is blurring
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The key chronicler of vibe coding's spread declared that the very distinction between the two axes of 2026 coding discourse is breaking down
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