LLMs can be used to vibe-code with limited or superficial understanding, but they can also be extremely helpful parsing and explaining code for a programmer who wants to understand what the program is doing. Well-managed forward thinking organizations will take advantage of the latter approach. The overwhelming majority of organizations will slide into the former without realizing it.

In the medium to longer term, we might be in a situation where only the most powerful next-generation AI models are able to make sense of giant vibe-coded balls of spaghetti and mud we're about to saddle ourselves with.