Sep 23, 2026 · 6 min read ai-assisted-development
Vibe coding in 2026: what the evidence says
Where the term came from, what METR, Veracode, CodeRabbit and Georgia Tech measured, and where vibe-coded software holds up or breaks.
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Engineering posts are about how things here are actually built, checked against a real build rather than a framework's marketing page.
The first looks at this site itself. brandon-ta.com is an Astro 5 content site in English and Vietnamese, and the post asks why it has not moved to Next.js in 2026. The answer is measured, not argued: on the production build most pages weigh about 30 KB and ship 5.2 KB of JavaScript, and one React island cost every blog post 102.7 KB until it was removed. The numbers come first, gzipped and dated, and the decision follows from them. Every size in the post is from the production build of this site, not from a sample app.