If coding truly becomes effortless to produce - and by that extension a product becomes near free to produce - then I find it quite odd that the executive class thinks their businesses won’t be completely up ended by a raging sea of competition.
Before I was building tools, now I am building full applications in less time than I did before for tools.
What will be around for a while is where you need an expert in the loop to drive the AI. For example enterprise applications. You simply can't hand that off to an AI at this point.
I'm not selling anything, but I can see the quality of what is created and it is on-par with much of the stuff on the App store.
No one would even notice that it is a co-creation unless I mentioned the time to create it.
Just to be clear. Vibe coding implies that you are not reviewing the code that is created, or even knowing what is being created. That is not what is happening.
interesting. any examples you can share?
You sound like CTO at my company rewriting stable libraries in languages he is familiar with and calling it 100x...
- Getting Claude to do the work
- creating in python tools
- Docker apps
- XCode
We've already seen this with OSS. Even with free software, support, self-hosting, and quirky behavior have proven to be enough to keep most people and business away.
Not unlike all the A.I. companies all determined to build the machine god while predicting it’ll be disastrous. Same thing - better it starts with us