'How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?' Argues Agents Are the New Compiler — and That It's Time to Revive Model-Driven Development

Alex Klos·low signal

Alex Klos's July 24 post takes Grady Booch's 'third age' framing and pushes it further: compilers abstracted away the machine, agents abstract away the code itself, and for the first time we can generate code directly from intent — the exact capability whose absence killed model-driven development. He frames the goal precisely as minimizing how much you must trust agent output, requiring two things current tooling doesn't deliver: deterministic execution of the instruction, and the ability to audit what changed without reading the code. He is openly dismissive of existing proposals, calling nothing offered so far 'remotely compelling.' Single source and argumentative rather than empirical.