When the keyboard stopped being the bottleneck, professionalism didn't change — its mechanics did.
By 2026, an autonomous coding agent might draft most of the pull requests you review this week. You still click Squash and merge. You still get paged at 11:20 when the agent's change from last Tuesday spikes P99 latency on a request path nobody has touched in months. You still own every commit that ships under your name — whether you typed it or an LLM did.

The Clean Vibe Coder is a field guide for the working software engineer in the age of AI agents. It updates the professional ethics of the craft for a world where a stochastic, non-deterministic teammate writes a substantial fraction of the code, and the human at the keyboard is still answerable for all of it.