AI is NOT Replacing Software Engineers… Yet

I'm all for making more makers but I’m still surprised people are expecting purely vibe-coded AI apps to scale. We've been experimenting with a bunch of prompt to app tools -- lovable, v0, bolt, etc. They work really well if you're doing things like: - Speeding up the first 20% of a project - Working mostly on the frontend - Prototyping or visualizing flows quickly - Building something with very simple functionality Huge, mindblowing time-savers in these scenarios! 🤯 You skip the setup and get something on screen fast. But once the app gets more complex, the cracks start to show: - >60% of the time and tokens are spent prompting bug fixes - Backend integration is tough (e.g. adding auth burned my tokens!) - Code quality gets really messy - Security vulnerabilities galore AI is a great accelerator — but it’s still not a replacement for real engineering, like the hype posts claim (at least not yet 😄) View original post on LinkedIn.