Google’s New SDLC With Vibe Coding paper nails “Agent = Model + Harness” but buries security, maintainability, and a verified 19% developer slowdown — and fails its own verification standard. Our production critique plus the reproducible harness playbook the paper left out.
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AI coding agents change the economics of software. This post explains what 100 lines really cost, why “repo verifiability” matters, and how CTOs scale speed safely.
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