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Google published The New SDLC With Vibe Coding in May 2026, a 51-page paper positioning agentic engineering as the mature successor to ad-hoc AI-assisted development.

It is full of errors. Claims that sound reasonable until you hold them against the formal traditions that govern whether software works.

This article examines twelve specific misconceptions in the paper and offers the grounded alternative for each. The places where it's wrong are the places where teams will make expensive decisions.

Generation is solved.

The paper's closing line: "Generation is solved. Verification, judgment, and direction are the new craft."

Generating code that compiles is solved. Generating code that passes a test suite is mostly solved. Generating code that is correct meaning it satisfies a complete specification of all required behaviors, including behaviors the test suite doesn't cover is not solved.…