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AI Writes the Code Now — So What Should We Actually Learn?

Julie on September 12, 2026

With AI coding, I can build things faster than ever. Yet I've never felt less in control. Last November, with the launch of GPT 5.1 and Claude Opu...
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Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Those you've no team, no support
AI is the strongest supporter.
I feel like concept should be yours, cores should be yours
codes can be written by AI but it should be based on your core, your structure. not based on AI's choice.
because if your app's core & structure is choice of your AI's probably claude's, codex's, etc. then you're not using AI as team, AI is using you as team for distributing the AI made product.

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Julie

I agree with you. AI can write code for us, but we should be the ones who come up with the ideas and make the decisions.

AI can be great at implementation, but we should act as architects and not outsource everything to it.

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Akhouri Anmol Kumar

By the way nice writing
hand's off to you.
✋🤚

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Julie • Edited

Thank you so much, @akhourianmolkumar ! 😄I really appreciate all the reactions and the kind words. That's a lot of support, and it means a lot to me.

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Frank Müller

Far in capability, close in time — that's how I'd put it. Someone with no engineering background producing a proper solution by vibe-coding alone is still a long way off; I've been in this long enough to know how deep the well goes. But not long ago I was keeping prompt spreadsheets for a stateless Midjourney inside Discord. This week I sent hundreds of agents from a single prompt. The distance is real; the speed we're closing it is the thing to watch.

And what made those agents useful was exactly your list: decomposing the problem, deciding the interfaces, verifying the output. The supervision didn't go away, it scaled. Here we go!

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Julie

I agree. Vibe coding is a good fit for prototyping. We can use it to turn an idea into reality quickly. It works well for our own use. However, if we want to build a product, we need to consider more factors, and doing so requires software engineering skills and experience.

"The supervision didn't go away; it scaled. " Human-in-the-loop oversight is always necessary.

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Akhouri Anmol Kumar

In your Bio I seen build, write,
so what are you building?
any start up or any independent product?

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Julie

It feels a bit awkward to admit this, but I've only built a few small tools for my own use with AI coding.
That said, I'm learning from dev.to, and I'm determined to build something in a few days. I'll share my progress here, so feel free to follow along. Thanks!😄

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Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Yeah I will.

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Julie

❤️😄

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Frank Müller

Please keep us posted and send a link to the production build! Thanks so much for your effort!

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Julie

Yes, I will! 😄Thank you very much for your support!