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The "glue" comment here reflects a view from someone who does mostly software work. That's been the situation since mechanized production lines were first built. The job of the humans is not direct labor. It's to monitor the machinery, restart it, and fix it.

Power looms were probably the first devices like this. Somebody has to thread the loom, but then it mostly runs by itself.[1] Production lines with lots of stations will have shutdowns, where a drill bit broke or there's dirt on a lens or some consumable ran out. Exceptions are hard to automate, and factory design focuses on minimizing exceptions and bypassing stuck cells.

It's helpful to understand how a factory works when watching how software development is changing. There's commonality.

So the phrase "vibe coding" is only two months old.[2] How widespread will it be in two years?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyRW9XOuUdU

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding