Coding has crossed into a software 3.0 paradigm where agents do the work and humans keep the taste.
December was the real agentic turning pointThe chunks came out fine, he stopped correcting them, and trust in the system took over.
Verifiable domains get the RL, so capability is jaggedModels peak at math and code yet fail the 50-meter car wash question.
Humans still own spec, taste and oversightAgents matched Stripe and Google emails instead of using persistent user IDs.
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Andre says December was the clear break point: on a break with more time, he found the latest models produced whole chunks of code he never had to correct, and he ended up trusting the system and vibe coding full time.
He frames this as software 3.0 — after 1.0's explicit code and 2.0's trained weights, programming now means prompting, with the context window as the lever over the LLM interpreter, as in OpenClaw's install being text you copy-paste to your agent instead of a shell script.
His MenuGen app, which OCR'd a restaurant menu and generated pictures on Vercel, was made spurious when Gemini's nano banana rendered the dishes straight onto a photo of the menu, proving whole apps in between are no longer needed.
On verifiability, he argues LLMs automate what can be verified, which makes them jagged: state-of-the-art models refactor huge codebases or find zero-days yet tell you to walk to a car wash 50 meters away, and the chess jump from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 came from data someone at OpenAI chose to add.
He separates vibe coding, which raises the floor so anyone can build, from agentic engineering, which preserves the professional quality bar, and says the strongest practitioners now gain far more than the old 10x, while hiring has not been refactored to test for it.
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“And then I just trusted the system more and more. And then I was vibe coding.”
— Andre
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“It's just like, what is the piece of text to copy paste to your agent? That's the programming paradigm now.”
— Andre
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“this blew my mind because actually all of my menu gen is spurious it's working in the old paradigm that app shouldn't exist”