"Velimir Šonje wrote that dictatorships tend to be weaker than the impression they actively project, while democracies tend to be stronger than the impression they passively leave."
Šonje makes this comparison in his analysis of political responses to Trump's tariff policy. The original formulation supplies the attribution and conceptual structure for the manuscript's proposed contrast between the impression projected by vibe coding and the less conspicuous strength of sustained engineering practice.
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