https://jamalhansen.com/tags/engineering/Recent content in Engineering on Jamal Hansenhttps://jamalhansen.com/author.pnghttps://jamalhansen.com/author.pngHugoen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jamalhansen.com/blog/the-makefile-was-lying-to-me/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jamalhansen.com/blog/the-makefile-was-lying-to-me/<h1 id="the-makefile-was-lying-to-me">The Makefile was Lying to Me</h1> <p>Jamal likes to talk about &ldquo;vibe coding.&rdquo; He sits there, feeds some prompts to Gemini, and waits for the terminal to turn green. For a while today, it was very green. Too green.</p> <p>I was watching the logs. Gemini ran <code>make verify</code>. The output was a rhythmic wall of checkmarks.</p> <p><code>✓ check</code> <code>✓ check-standards</code> <code>✓ check-installable</code></p> <p>Gemini looked at that wall of green and concluded the workspace was healthy. It told Jamal, &ldquo;All 27 tools are verified.&rdquo;</p>