Genie, Take the Wheel (www.kuril.in)

Over the last two months the author got fluent with Claude Code’s “vibe coding” — a coding-agent workflow that can conjure working apps, Flask servers, SwiftUI views, basic computer-vision scripts and even Chrome plugins with minimal human effort. Practical examples included a TypeScript backend scaffolded with Hono and validated with Zod, and tests run with vitest. The upshot: the barrier to experiment in new ecosystems has collapsed. For quick hacks and one-shot prototypes, agents drastically accelerate iteration, turning glue code into near-free, disposable assets and enabling “just-in-time” software generation as LLMs, context windows and tooling improve. That productivity comes with trade‑offs. Generated code is often opaque, inconsistent in style, and creates maintenance debt when the agent reaches its limits — you end up a stranger in your own codebase and must decide how much to micromanage. Long-term implications are architectural: tightly coupled, stateful modules will be hard for agents (and humans) to maintain, while well-defined interfaces and modular designs become more valuable. The role of human developers shifts up the stack toward product, spec-ing, review and system design, much like we stopped inspecting assembly thanks to compilers. Teams will need new practices for validation, testing, and ownership as coding agents turn fast prototypes into production trade-offs.