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Founder, DeepLearning.AI · Aug 28, 2026 · Letter, The Batch issue 368, letter

A novice who vibe codes without understanding software fundamentals can create simple applications, but this often leads to the coding agent making bad tradeoffs in latency, availability, consistency, reliability, maintainability, simplicity, and/or cost.

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Said by
Andrew Ng, Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Where
The Batch issue 368, letter
Topics
Coding
Company
DeepLearning.AI
Source
deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-368/

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