Alright, kiddos, grab your popcorn and take your seats - today we’re heading straight into the Circus of Vibe-Coding. The show’s packed: flashing lights, screaming hype-beasts, and our headliner - a half-broken AI game raking in $50k a month. That’s right. Someone slapped together an AI-generated mess, put it on Steam, and is now bathing in dopamine and PayPal notifications. Naturally, everyone wants in.

Suddenly, we’ve got “developers” building Minecraft clones in a few prompts, spinning up “startups” overnight, and calling it innovation. Programming? Old news, bro. ChatGPT does it all. You? Just drop a “make it work” prompt, vibe to some lo-fi beats, and press accept like a dopamine-fueled lab monkey.

And yet, here I am - to sing an ode to the new gods of vibe-coding… and explain why it’s absolute trash. Dangerous trash, too.

The moment ChatGPT stopped spewing spaghetti code, the cult of “programming is dead” emerged. These self-proclaimed “AI whisperers” evolved beyond us “code mortals.” Why bother learning languages when you can manifest apps with the power of vibes?

If one of these vibe-coders calls me a dinosaur stuck in the 20th century, I’ll take that as a compliment. I use AI daily. It’s an amazing tool. But vibe-coding? Nah. That’s not using AI - that’s worshipping it.

Here’s the original definition that kicked off the clown parade:

“Vibe-coding is when you forget code even exists. I’m too lazy to debug, I just accept whatever the AI spits out. If it doesn’t work, I tell it to try random changes. It usually works.”

Usually. Works.

Translation: The AI is the developer now. The human? Just a dopamine addict smashing accept whenever something runs without exploding. The result? The “coder” devolves into a hairless chimp with a mechanical keyboard.

Not all clowns are equal, though. There are two sacred orders:

1. The Dangerous Ones - Freelancers who don’t know jack about code but sell AI-generated garbage to clients. They think they’ve found a cheat code to money. What they’ve actually found is a fast track to lawsuits.

2. The Entertaining Ones - The cultists who preach “programmers are obsolete” while showing off AI tricks on Twitter. These folks couldn’t refactor a for loop to save their lives, but they sure can vibe.

They say AI codes at a mid-level dev’s skill.

Cool. Then how does a junior prompt guru evaluate that code?
Exactly - they can’t.

That’s like judging a German essay when you barely know the alphabet. “But it runs!” they shout. Sure, but is it secure? Scalable? Maintainable? Does it follow patterns, architecture, or even common sense?

Didn’t think so.

Remember the guy who coined “vibe-coding”? Yeah, his “AI-built” app got hacked into oblivion. Security holes everywhere. He had to shut it down.

Surprised? I’m not.

And here’s the fun twist: hackers are loving vibe-coders. Some even create fake libraries with AI-generated names - the ones language models hallucinate all the time - and fill them with malware. Vibe-coders download them like candy. Why verify anything when you’re “on the vibe,” right?

Think about it: AI models don’t know the latest vulnerabilities. They’re frozen in time. So when you ask it to “install the best version,” it might grab an outdated one riddled with exploits. That’s not coding - that’s playing Russian roulette with your users’ data.

Sure, AI can blast through the easy 70% of an app - the routine stuff. But once you hit the complex architecture, optimization, or debugging? Boom - the wall. And vibe-coders don’t climb walls. They just prompt harder.

The result? Fragile, unmaintainable junk. Apps that work until you touch them.

And yes, there are already “vibe-coder” job listings. The word “fast” appears more times than “secure”, “scalable”, or “documented” combined. Makes sense - it’s all about speed, not stability.

AI will absolutely reshape programming. The boring parts - form-building, CRUD apps, landing pages - they’ll be AI’s turf. But complex systems? Mission-critical software? Anything that actually matters? Still needs real engineers.

Like aviation: autopilot replaced the navigator, but not the pilots. You still need humans who understand the system. Same goes for software. Someone has to check the AI’s work. Spoiler: that won’t be a vibe-coder.

Even if the “prompt-only future” happens (it won’t, but let’s pretend), who’ll have the edge?

• The vibe-coder who learned prompting in two months?

• Or the senior dev who already understands architecture, security, and system design - and then learns prompting too?

Exactly.

AI isn’t killing programming. It’s killing lazy programming.
The hype train will crash, just like every “no-code revolution” before it.

So yeah - vibe, prompt, experiment, have fun. But if you’re serious about building something that lasts, learn the craft. Because when the circus lights go out and the crowd moves on, only the coders who understand the code will still be standing.

And if someone tells you that programmers are obsolete - look for the red nose. It’s probably theirs.