Dev.to•Jan 17, 2026, 4:09 PM

Death of "Vibe Coding": Engineering Intent in the Age of Autonomous Agents
The article critiques "vibe coding"—relying on LLMs to generate code via prompts—as inadequate for production systems. It advocates shifting focus to rigorous architectural specifications ("architecture.md") and Spec-Driven Development (SDD), where human architects define structural intent upfront a
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