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Vibe coding genuinely made shipping a product easier. But what someone without software and systems knowledge ships to production isn't the same as what a senior steering the AI ships. Three levels, three different qualities.
The problems we used to solve with JavaScript and preprocessors now have native CSS answers: container queries, :has(), and native nesting.
Three months ago I built a tool to audit my own diffs. This post is not about the 'why' but the 'how much': which workflow layers it plugs into, the numbers behind the speedup, the bug patterns it keeps catching — and where it hits its limits.
One afternoon I ran headfirst into the limits of self-review, so I wrote a tool that audits my own diff right from the terminal: CommitBrief. A note on why I built it, how it works, and what problem it actually solves.
Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid? That's the wrong question. A decision matrix from 18 years of production experience, three real case studies, and a way out of methodology religion.