From Vibe Coding to Deliberation-First Coding with AI

You give the Agent a prompt. It writes 200 lines of code. You review it. The architecture is wrong. You explain what you actually meant. It rewrites everything. Still not quite right. It misunderstood your data model. **10 or more iterations later**, you've got working code... and a lingering feeling that you could have just written it yourself faster. Sound familiar? Here's the thing: **the…