# 1000 commits to Prod *20 months of vibe coding before it became a hashtag.* By [TetracOfficial](https://paragraph.com/@tetrac) ยท 2026-03-29 #ai, #vibecoding, #macro --- First off, if you started to vibe in the last 3 months, you're lucky. Models weren't even close to being efficient or effective as they are today. What you can build in a single session today would have taken me a week last year. I started with Cline, Roo, Kilo, burning $50-$200 a day through OpenRouter with Anthropic Sonnet, OpenAI models and every new model that surfaced on OR. Even back then I was 100% sold on the AI assisted dev flows. I was able to boost productivity a huge amount and every cent I spent on inference was worth it because hiring another dev for 100k+ a year to join the team without AI skills didn't make a lot of sense at that time. A lot of devs didn't know or trust it. It's true, you couldn't and it was purely. a tool to boost productivity and not a 100% know all solution at that time. Today, it's getting there. I used an IDE called VSCode and other forks to multiply the workflow. All the AI extensions were rapidly iterating at lightning speeds with new releases practically every other day. It was hard to keep up with all the new features and I quickly realized **the programmer would be obsolete** via AI in the near term. Face Palmed by AI ----------------- It was actually hard to stomach because I've been coding for over a decade. Coding is technical, architecture design is tough and learning a new syntax takes a lot of time and dedication. I started with all the C's and eventually moved to typescript and node for backend/frontend stuff. If your building anything for the web2 or web3 you're probably using it right now. Along the way, Solidity was added to the belt and later MOVE (Aptos/SUI) for all the web3 world. I really liked MOVE for smart contracts for a lot of reasons that I may talk about in the future. I didn't learn Rust for Solana, but I'll get into that below. I had a solid foundation and I thought I'd be set for life. **No way AI would replace me**, and so I thought. Back to 2024, with the surfacing of AI coding, learning another language didn't really matter. If AI knew the syntax, all I had to do is prompt it with the engineering and debug a little. It was tolerable. Better than learning from scratch and while you vibing, your eyes would naturally see the structure. Learning while accomplishing tasks became a reality for the first time in history. The downside... **devs were cooked.** Reading a programming book or scrolling youtube for tutorials became obsolete.. All you had to do is ask questions within any LLM webUI or terminal. On demand , in depth answers but you still had to take it with a grain a salt. AI hallucinations were real and often responses were incorrect, but if you knew some coding fundamentals you could direct the conversation and get better answers. As CZ from Binance once said " I don't know what to ask", and around that time you would start to see WebUIs with pre packaged questions to spark the ole noggin. However, there was a new trend emerging. No see code prompt building aka vibe coding What is code ? ----------------- I just prompt, and let it build. 100% non devs enter the arena. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/9d969418f70bd49dc0d3a2b11b4dd7fde997293a99be34b17aa493db72110aaf.png) Claude Code should be on the list too. It's probably the most popular and even though it's targeted for devs with some terminal skills, many people can **copy paste** some commands into a terminal and get things working as I've seen. Most of these projects and tools take the actual code out of scene (besides Cursor aka a fork of VSCode) and let people just prompt. Vibe coding is officially born and when you do this something wild occurs. You start trusting AI ------------------------ ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3bce6001d6846e4877d290859a4edfe5e2e7b4818557e988cac92475b970d526.png) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f20c643cff8dcf809567dd2c1c4ed3acf471996fcf49a1e8beacf0867a481613.png) We're in a new era of development, **Ship fast, fix later.** The term QA ( Quality Assurance) rapidly disappears and we're left with unreliable products all across the spectrum. There's really no benefit to the end user but only a slight edge gained against your competitor. Everyone can create now, every team can chase another , trying to gain an edge, stay relevant, and gain more users, A new feature, a better model, all burning cash while trying to raise more. This is called alpha decay, a term normally fitting best for the financial markets, but on the technological front. Who will win, who will lose and that's the speculation cycles that we're in at the moment. We don't know and they don't know, but they all have the tools and money to keep shipping. Hackers will ultimately win --------------------------- If you've read my previous [article](https://paragraph.com/@tetrac/ai-will-change-everything?referrer=0x00bE2f61BAa0cD9Cd4f3e12DC2278F5B33C119f9) , cyber security is a skill and sought after career that's worth pursuing. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f62deb35f7b66a9b04764aaa5ed8005e782de85cf9ed22c8b02a967ae2d7822d.png) --- *Originally published on [TetracOfficial](https://paragraph.com/@tetrac/1000-commits-to-prod)*