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Vibe coding toward the incident horizon

We are living through a golden age of generative AI: a time when progress is both breathtaking and somehow still unable to reliably open a PDF without hallucinating the author’s middle name. The curve is real, the funding is real, and the demos are so real that they must be watched on a stage with dramatic lighting, because ordinary lighting reveals too much. The modern model does many things remarkably well—summarization, translation, code generation—and then it will confidently assert that 9 is a prime number “depending on your threat model,” which is how you know you’re witnessing history.

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