Karpathy gave us vibe coding: "see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, copy and paste stuff, and it mostly works." Since then, the industry has kept trying to turn it into a tidy autonomy ladder — Level 0, Level 1, all the way up to fully autonomous development.
That ladder is useful. It is also incomplete.
It measures one thing: how much of the building you delegate to AI.
But two people can delegate the same amount and get radically different outcomes. One compounds. The other accumulates entropy. Same autonomy level. Different operating system.
That's the missing axis: operator discipline.
