Well, as I predicted Ai will make a lot of mess⌠this is the first major official announcement for 2026
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In late 2025, many of my old developer friends got laid off, some were working for 20 years at the same company and got a simple announcement that they will be laid off.
It was a shock for me to see that the junior devs were kept and the senior devs were notâŚ
Some companies have an interesting strategy, least to sayâŚ
Yes, everything feels upside down right now. But this nonsenseâthat coding is now the easiest skill in the world and that anybody can codeâwill stop at some point.
Code is hard as f*ck. And the idea that you can just prompt an app without understanding what itâs doing simply doesnât work for me. I am absolutely sure that no serious commercial project is built this way. There is always a developer who has to sort things out. This applies even to generic apps that were already done.
Most of us are not just consumers of software. We are software developers. We are engineers. We invent things. Either way, I expect things to keep getting worse for a while⌠until they finally start getting better again.
Unfortunately, a lot of CEOs donât understand what it actually takes to create a premium app. They believe it can be done with a prompt. Some of them even think they donât need a team anymore. This will stop eventually, but until then, things are going to go to sh*tâbadly.
Today I saw that Stack Overflow is basically dead:
Itâs crazy that they allowed this to happen. Sure, the CEOs got richâbut what about everyone else?
I also remember when Envato wanted to feed our code to AI, and they probably did it anyway, without our permission. I received an email asking for consent, and I said no, but come on. Mr. Hamsi is in chargeâeasily one of the most incompetent CEOs in the world
Well, yesâthis is what AI is causing, and things will go to s*it. Nobody in their right mind will use a vibe-coded app. We all know that a plugin, for example, can be rejected for a tiny mistake like using esc_url in the wrong place.
AI is amazing. Itâs like having a team thatâs always ready to help. But this idea of doing something without knowing anything about it is just stupidâand we all know it, even if somehow most people donât care.
What I expect to happen in the near future is that the demand for experienced developers will skyrocket, because all juniors are now s*cared. Remember: code is one of the hardest things you can learn. Itâs not easy!!!
I donât understand how all of a sudden it became the easiest thing in the world⌠just like in the image that you posting the vibe is gone once you get your hands dirty!
Nothing can be done about this, itâs a new technology and it changes the balance of things. When electricity came out, lots of candle makers lost their jobs - it is what it is.
The problem for Stackoverflow is that in the age of AI, no-one is going to spend 3 days to solve an issue by asking on a forum, waiting for replies, and then trying them 1 by 1. Development has become much faster. I think it is ultimately a benefit for people, it means development is faster, more accessible and cheaper, even if sometimes itâs bad development.
Of course, if someone can afford to pay, they can pay a professional who will be responsible if anything goes wrong. For many jobs thatâs actually what you are paying for.
I think there has always been (and will continue to be) this difference between the hobbyist and the professional. Sometimes the lines are blurred. This is not new for software development. For the last 30 years, any kid that picked up a computer could do a website, whether they really knew what they were doing or not. There was the term âscript kiddiesâ, I guess today it has been replaced with âvibe codersâ.
Nothing new under the sunâŚ
And many of these kids ended up learning the real thing and some of them built billion dollar companies.
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Totally agree!
What I do not like about this vibe code is the idea of doing something without any knowledge about it, it just doesnât work, it might work if you do it for a hobby, but not for a commercial product. There are just too many variables in the mixâŚ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1cBGW_zoyQ thigs are starting to change 
I donât know, Subsidized or Not Subsidized, Good or Imperfect, or with issues,
The world has changed and a lot of people wonât accept it.
I donât mean you, but a lot of devs hate what is happening, they hate how their skills are getting devalued in real time, and are going to turn to delusion and cope instead of accepting reality.
Look at the YouTube comments on the video you posted:
- âSo vibe-coder is more expensive than regular developerâ
- âIm so glad you never turned to be an AI bro. There are a few of us who realize this absolute clown show happening.â
- âAI might become the biggest failed economic bet in history.â
I kind of feel like Iâm watching Taxi Drivers cry about Uber:
- âThey donât even have a real taxi licenseâ
- âThey didnât even pass The Knowledgeâ (UK Cabs)
Personally, I love agentic coding. In my case, it makes me ten times betterâbut I know what Iâm doing, and thatâs the catch.
No company is going to use a vibe-coded product, come on. This propaganda has f*cked the industry, literally is nearly dead with some exception nothign sells anymore.. Iâm not sure how this will end, because the next wave of AI will start disrupting other professions too. For coding, itâs kind of at the end stage alreadyâeven if it improves, this is likely how it will be for the foreseeable future: agentic coding for experienced developers, and vibe coding for everyone else who want to play at developer. Thatâs going to create such a messâboy, oh boy, youâll see.
Now theyâre shifting focus to other niches. Who knows what theyâre cooking up? Iâve seen a video where some accountants lost their job to AI⌠Literally, these rich CEOs are becoming semi-gods. This will only be stopped if something bad happensâreally bad. If we continue down this path, it will happen, because nothing is worse than a hungry mob!
We agree there - at least for now, only someone who understands coding can properly use AI. Otherwise itâs a mess.
I just mean there is a lot of AI hate from people who donât want to use it and donât want to adapt (Again, not talking about you). I just know that kind of person, whoâs going to criticize, and whine, and bring up all the imperfections, because theyâre just an old fart who donât want to move on with the times.
About accounting, Iâm quite close to it because my familyâs into that. The âtopâ accountants will never lose the job, because someone needs to sign and take responsibility (same with lawyers, air traffic controllers, etc. - you canât hold the AI responsible for a mistake).
But the people lower on the scale, operators, people inputting invoices manually into the system etc, yeah sooner or later itâs over for that kind of job.
Of course, most humans already hate AI. If these idiot CEOs come out and say that it will destroy humanity and all jobs will be lost and al lkind of idiotic apocaliptic predictions, which is already happeningâthe hate will transform into revolt if things continue like this. AI is supposed to help us not delete us!
This will never truly change. Just like with accountants, if you have a business, I donât think you would buy an app from someone who has no idea how it is written and works!
I have started working on the course that I want to build, and the final app/project is a complex radio player. I wanted to go through as much stuff as possible. This player has cool visuals and also works with external APIs like Shoutcast and Icecast. It is a really good project to get you started.
I created the backbone of the app, and then I used agentic coding to speed things up for each section. The amount of sloppy code it added is crazy. Itâs like ten developers worked on it, each with their own style. So I had to go in and change almost all the code to make it human-readable and follow good practices.
The way I see it, AI is really great. In my case, it makes me a super developer, literally. I can create stuff that will make you say âWOWâ instantly. But for those who think they can just vibe-code their way through everything, they will be in for a surprise. You just canât do anything serious/commercial without true skill even by some miracle AI creates the app that you want you donât even know if it has issues, just imagine one of your plugins how much architecture and thougt was put into each featureâŚ
Just now someone posted a job about Three.js, and I said to him, âWhy not vibe-code it?â The answer was, âWe tried, but we donât understand the full context of the issue.â And that is where only skill can solve it. Without experience, you donât even understand the problem. Imagine building a project like this.
You know that the more complex the project, the more problems AI will cause. And if the app also needs to be scalable. which moste are, it will be nearly impossible to do properly because AI does not understand the problems or context the way we do. And this will not change unless it can read our minds, and I doubt that and even than is questionable.
All this nonsense happening now is based on fear and greed. At some point things will start to calibrate, but for now we are in IT hell, literally.
I use AI, though not all the time. I donât think I could go back to writing code the way I used toâit would feel depressing. It is impressive, especially when you prompt the initial phase of the app. Things get really hard when there are multiple issues, and since AI does not have context, it fixes one thing and breaks two more. At that point, as a developer, it becomes impossible to follow the project, and it gets lost.
CEOs think now, âLetâs do 90%+ with AI because is cheaper and then hire a senior developer to fix and finish the rest.â Nah, thatâs not how it works. Letâs be serious, focourse they love the idea but this is not h ow t hings works, a propject wirtten in ten dev styles with code that dose not follow any patterns canât be fixed by any dev or even AI itselfâŚ
As I said, AI is impressive, but without a good pilot it is just a toy. It will not get you too far until you realize that you are stuck and donât even know where to begin fixing it. And I am absolutely sure you know thisâyou are an experienced developer. But the propaganda, the fear, layoffss, bad sales⌠and all this nonsense that happened lately made you doubt it.
Also, as I said, maybe you vibe-coded something and were WOWed by it, but try to get it to 100% and see how it goes. Maybe you will succeed. But what do you do if you need an update or there is a bug that you dont even know is there since you did not properly tested it and even realze it could be there? Prompt it again with a new agent that has no idea what is already there? It just does not work.
We are not gamblers. We are freaking engineers and this will bite all this gready CEOâs bad in the near future I just know it Iâve been arround as a dev since 2000, I want to a fwe crashes so they canât fool me!
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I know what you mean, Iâve had the same experience, it seems wow at first but when you look at it closer, itâs not.
Weâll see what the future holdsâŚ
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