Vibe Coding vs Prompt Engineering: AI and the Future of Software Development

Every year, the industry announces a new “game-changing” innovation. Most of them matter far less in practice than they do in talks and blog posts. A few are useful. Very few actually change how software is built. AI agents did. In 2025, AI stopped being an experiment and became infrastructure for how I build software. It now shapes how I think about problems, how I design systems, how I write…