Most things that people who don't know how to code want to build are not actually dead simple, and they often won't be able to articulate what they need very well.
Ironically, an experienced coder that needs a specific and simple tool quick will have a better time.
As someone who vibes codes web apps that are being used by people, they take way way longer than initially expected. The prototype can take one shot, and the full prod implementation can take weeks to months. If you aren’t able to stick it out it will die but if you are willing to learn how to prompt to integrate Auth, email, security, performance than you can create truly incredible apps with no coding experience. But it’s basically a new skill in and of itself. Claude Code already gets the prototype to final product gap down a lot because it’s so good and getting better but it still makes mistakes and needs lots and lots and lots of nudging and directing and reminders and writing docs and getting other agents to check work based on docs ect.
This guy keeps writing negative articles trying to wish into existence his bad call on the usefulness of LLMs. He really isn’t an expert, as he claims. Instead he cherry picks anecdotes to feed his confirmation bias.
Even if “vibe coding” is dying, there is a very real boost to the productivity of people writing software from AI based tools. That’s here to stay, even if there is a human element in working with those tools. Vibe coding is not dying, unless you reductively try to define it in very limited ways.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 27.2 ms ] threadIronically, an experienced coder that needs a specific and simple tool quick will have a better time.
For all we know the right side of the graph is actually representing something else like accelerating layoffs in the tech industry.
If I’m unemployed I’m perhaps not doing AI code completion like I do at work.
Even if “vibe coding” is dying, there is a very real boost to the productivity of people writing software from AI based tools. That’s here to stay, even if there is a human element in working with those tools. Vibe coding is not dying, unless you reductively try to define it in very limited ways.