... conventional wisdom in software engineering says good code requires careful thought and skill, not just going with the flow. I had spent years honing the craft learning algorithms, writing unit tests, agonizing over naming variables so the suggestion that one could simply give in to the vibes and let AI handle the heavy lifting felt almost insulting. If vibe coding was going to be the future, as some claimed, I was prepared to be that grumpy developer yelling ... ... deeper. It turns out Karpathy had fully embraced vibe coding in his own projects. In fact, he bragged about vibe coding an entire iOS app in Swift (a language he hadn t used before) in about one