Home Speakers Andrew Ng Quote 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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More from Andrew Ng Letter The Batch issue 371, letter Sep 18, 2026
First, I don’t see any step up in the risk of human extinction from AI compared to a few months ago. Letter The Batch issue 371, letter Sep 18, 2026
Fixing these bugs and putting in place improved monitoring would be appropriate fixes, not pausing AI. Letter The Batch issue 371, letter Sep 18, 2026
Pausing AI progress will create much more harm than benefit. Letter The Batch issue 371, letter Sep 18, 2026
Similarly, if I prompt an agent and it hacks into someone else’s system, the responsibility lies with me, not the agent. Letter The Batch issue 371, letter Sep 18, 2026
While this was technically accurate, as I write this, I have about 1,300 processes running on my laptop. Letter The Batch issue 370, letter Sep 11, 2026
When you’re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won’t be merely implementing a product that someone else spec’ed out. Letter The Batch issue 369, letter Sep 4, 2026
Now, we focus much less on code and instead focus on deciding what to build, designing the architecture, writing the spec, and verifying outputs. Letter The Batch issue 368, letter Aug 28, 2026
Agentic coding enables many developers who previously played more specialized roles (like front-end developer or mobile developer) to play a broader, full-stack role.
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Engineering specializations are disappearing, judgment and agency are more important, and it only takes one or two engineers for previously “impossible” rewrites and migrations to succeed. Blog Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory Sep 15, 2026
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