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Cera: Engineering agents cannot vibe-code complex products without modularity

Ben Cera · #2306 Polsia: AI Agent + Zero Employees = $10M Run Rate · May 27, 2026 · at 5:32

Ben Cera, founder of AI startup Polsia, discusses the technical architecture needed to build reliable autonomous software development agents.

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“If you let an engineering agent just vibe code its way into building something complex, it's gonna be hard at one point for it to navigate the code base”

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