handing things over to a computer without knowing what it’s doing

So, it's very easy to understand different levels of abstractions and how the lower level abstractions fit into higher level ones.

Like the simplest adder circuit can be expressed in a series of nand gates, a nand gate can be implemented in various ways on the silicon. In the other direction, you have a group of circuits than can be driven by a clock to demarc discrete states, and the collective you have becomes memory, CPU, FPGA etc.

The "software" is similar, truth tables, machine state etc whatever it is on to the highest level software.

The act of vibe coding abdicates understanding the abstraction by the programmer, and if they take up that abdication they cease to be a programmer, or a professional in general.

Edit fixed grammer but this looks worse

you can use AI to write code, but you still have to check behind it.

And this is, in large part, why AI is an unprofitable, useless product. So much of the promised productivity is crap, because if you have to validate and test anyway, it takes less time in the end to do the work yourself. If you're building a tech product, you also need to understand how it works because you need to be able to service it properly, and frequent AI use dulls that ability too.

Every single person who uses AI, by now, has seen it hallucinate bug out often enough that it's demonstrably not something which produces trustworthy output.

Linux is not vibe coded but for some reason claim it is but macOS isn't. I see no basis for either assertion.

No he doesn't.