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You're not shipping faster. You're shipping louder, and the industry is celebrating the wrong metric.The industry is celebrating the wrong metric. Every team is shipping faster with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor — and many are just shipping louder: more pull requests, more churn, more confident-looking technical debt at unprecedented speed. LLMs are mirrors. Point them at a clean, well-bounded codebase and they produce focused, correct changes. Point them at tangled state and implicit coupling and they amplify the mess. In this talk, we would make a case against vibe coding — the accept-everything flow that dominates developer culture right now — and for conscious engineering: the deliberate discipline of designing systems that survive growth, scale, and change. This is drawn from 8+ years in the JavaScript ecosystem. Seniors aren't obsolete — they're the reason AI output is trustworthy. You'll leave with a stake in the ground about what it means to stay relevant as the craft shifts. Read More...