Judgment: Knowing When Not To

Part of the Vibe Coding: Advanced Engineering course

Every lesson so far has been about doing this well. This one is about the decision that comes before all of them, and the one most likely to separate engineers who compound from engineers who plateau: recognizing the situations where reaching for a model is the wrong call, and being willing to say so when the room assumes otherwise.

These are not moral positions. Each is a case where the arithmetic does not work. ...