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Vibe Coding2026-07-15 · source-backed
He argues a project's real shared language isn't English or Python but the common understanding of concepts, boundaries, invariants, and ownership, and that pre-AI friction like reviews and cross-team communication quietly did the work of aligning that. (Simon Willison) His warning: as agents remove that friction, you can lose the mechanism that kept mental models aligned. It reframes code review and docs as alignment infrastructure, not overhead to automate away.
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