> AI works.
For some definition of "works". This seems to be yours:
> I'd go further and say vibe coding it up, testing the green case, and deploying it straight into the testing environment is good enough. The rest we can figure out during testing, or maybe you even have users willing to beta-test for you.
> This way, while you're still on the understanding part and reasoning over the code, your competitor already shipped ten features, most of them working.
> Ok, that was a provocative scenario. Still, nowadays I am not sure you even have to understand the code anymore. Maybe having a reasonable belief that it does work will be sufficient in some circumstances.