AI Writes the Code, I Still Engineer the Software

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:15:23 +0100

Over the past few months I’ve been using AI tools to a much greater extent in my coding work.

In particular, I’ve increasingly been using them to generate the code that I would previously have written myself.

That does not mean I’ve moved over to “vibe coding”, at least not in the sense that I understand the term: repeatedly prompting an LLM until whatever it produces appears to work, running it, kicking the tyres a bit, and moving on without necessarily reading or fully understanding what has been produced behind the scenes.

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AI Writes the Code, I Still Engineer the Software