The Mirage of “Vibe Coding”: Why Architecture Still Rules Software Engineering
n recent months, a concept has dominated discussions in specialized forums and engineering teams: “vibe coding.” Coined in early 2025 by Andrej Karpathy, the term describes a development modality where programmers use AI assistants (like Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Code) to generate entire applications interacting purely in natural language. The initial promise was technical liberation:…