We've officially entered the era of vibe coding — where you describe an app to a chatbot, paste the output into another chatbot to fix what the first one broke, and then post the GitHub link on LinkedIn like you built NASA's navigation system from scratch.
The real tell? The commit history. "Fix bug." "Fix bug again." "Why is this still broken." "ok chatgpt fix." "PLEASE." Four hundred commits, one functioning button.
Silicon Valley used to gatekeep software with a whiteboard question about inverting binary trees. Now the barrier to entry is being able to type a coherent sentence. Congratulations, we've democratized incompetence. The bugs used to require knowledge to introduce — now they're procedurally generated at scale by people who call themselves "prompt engineers" with a straight face.
And the confidence. The confidence. These guys ship to production on a Friday, break payments for 40,000 users, and then post a thread: "shipping is a mindset." Yeah. So is arson.
The AI isn't replacing programmers. It's just given everyone the ability to create problems that actual programmers will spend the next decade debugging. Congrats on the demo day, king.
