Somewhere in some company, people who don't write code are prompting their way into production. They build tools in a browser, deploy them without a single line of traditional code, and hand them off to the rest of the business. Eventually, maintaining that platform becomes someone's job. It became mine. Low-code and vibe-coding platforms are gaining massive adoption, but they offer almost none of the engineering practices we take for granted. This talk is about what happens when you try to apply rigor, testing, and architecture to an ecosystem designed to ignore them.
Following one small function from concept to production, we'll uncover everything these platforms fail to provide, and how to fix it. Because while the tools change, the core problem-solving doesn't.