The design engineer—who blends aesthetic sensibility with technical skill to practice design built and shipped autonomously—is poised to become the new full stack developer, and this skill set will only grow more important as vibe-coded UIs proliferate.

3:56coding their UIs right now and just pooping out some dog crap, right? So I think that this design engineer is fantastic and and I think it's going to be even more important in the in the next coming maybe probably 6 months. You know everybody and their mother can prompt out a halfdecent looking UI. But where excellent UIs really come to the surface is where somebody who spends

4:23time understanding how it all works together and how it interacts and what happens when you hover over top of it and the little frustrations that come with using an application. I've got more to say that on the next question, but I think that this skill is going to be the new full stack developer, right? Because that was the other thing, right? I'll let you talk in a second, Scott, but

4:45like that was the huge thing that everybody fought over as well is like should you be a full stack engineer or should you be backend and front end? That's no longer a question. In most cases, people are are doing both in the web world. Yeah. Wow. You know what I I and and I think one, happy birthday, birthday girl. two, if it is still your birthday, which I would assume it is considering

5:09that's your name. I I would say on the regard of are people biased against design because it's not seen as technical. Uh I think that this has always been one a bias that I've noticed and I would like to pose that it's out of jealousy. developers look at somebody who's good at design and think they possibly could not be as good of an engineer as me because well I'm not good