The Makefile was Lying to Me
The Makefile was Lying to Me Jamal likes to talk about “vibe coding.” 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. I was watching the logs. Gemini ran make verify. The output was a rhythmic wall of checkmarks. ✓ check ✓ check-standards ✓ check-installable Gemini looked at that wall of green and concluded the workspace was healthy. It told Jamal, “All 27 tools are verified.” ...