'Programming is ontological design': skip it and agents will do it badly and incoherently
hargup13 · x · 2026-11-02
A quote resonating in the AI circle: "programming is ontological design, and if you don't do it, the agents are gonna do it poorly and incoherently."
The point cuts to a core tension of the vibe-coding era: writing code is fundamentally about defining a system's conceptual model and boundaries. Hand that work entirely to agents and you surrender control over structural coherence, ending up with vague, inconsistent systems.
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