Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated

Thoughtful essay arguing that vibe coding creates a false sense of precision — English specs feel exact until abstraction leaks emerge at scale or complexity. Uses Dan Shipper's viral app outage as a concrete case study of real-time collaboration being far harder than it "intuitively" sounds. The thesis is that code isn't dying, but its role is shifting: AI handles translation from intent to artifact, while engineers still need to understand the layers beneath.