AI Didn't Design This BNG. Experience Did.

When I open-sourced the eBPF BNG last month, someone on Hacker News called it “vibe coded.” I understand why. The project moved fast — a working distributed BNG with eBPF/XDP packet processing, DHCP, RADIUS, NAT, PPPoE, BGP, and a coordination service, all open-sourced within weeks. That’s suspicious. When something appears quickly, people assume it was thrown together quickly. But speed of implementation isn’t the same as absence of design. And using AI tools to write code isn’t the same as letting AI design your system.