(talking about non-trivial code bases here)

Not being able to understand a code base and needing an agent to do that is one thing (skill issue I guess), but not knowing the intention behind a piece of program is a complete different thing (the agent can’t read the mind of the original author on why certain business compromise was made, how the design evolved to this point, …).

I get the feeling all these people defending vibe coding never worked on a non-trivial project and something that has to live and serve large volume of requests for 5+ years.

Just more prompting will do + make no mistake