From Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: Controlling AI‑Assisted JDK Upgrades
The article explains how AI‑assisted coding, once limited to new feature development, can be harnessed for complex maintenance tasks such as JDK 21 upgrades by imposing systematic execution constraints, structuring knowledge into reusable skills, orchestrating tools, and establishing feedback loops that turn each upgrade into a repeatable, measurable engineering process.
