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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