The New Engineering Paradigm: Day 1 Vibe Code, Year 1 Rewrite in Rust

Stan Girard&rsquo;s lifecycle of modern software — there&rsquo;s some truth to it: Day 1 : Vibe code with Claude Week 1 : Fix bugs for production Month 1 : Senior engineer optimizes for scale Year 1 : Rewrite in Rust The punchline: despite using AI extensively, most of the code that goes to production is still human-written. Domain expertise matters. Doing one thing well requires understanding…