Many junior engineers type a vague prompt, accept whatever comes back, ship it, pray. But watching a senior developer use AI changed his mind.

But watching a senior engineer vibe coding and a junior engineer vibe coding reveals it isn’t prompting techniques or tool skill. It’s that the senior engineer was already disciplined, and the AI amplifies whatever discipline — or lack of it — you bring.

Here’s a good article on techniques senior developers use (and have almost always used even before AI) that separates them from how most junior engineers work.