It's both. Lot of people vibe coding purely from financial motivations, lot of people vibe coding to rapidly prototype and explore ideas. The latter camp certainly will be the ones to carry the torch forward, now that the cat is out of the bag.
Carry what torch forward where? Vibe coders aren't going to learn more about the languages or techniques the LLM uses, or how to write that code themselves. They aren't going to exercise curiosity about anything beyond the LLMs API and prompts. They aren't going to pursue deep knowledge. By definition they only want to get a viable end product with the least amount of creative or cognitive effort on their part. That seems like the opposite of the "curious developer" archetype the article is talking about.
Luckily, vibe coders have yet to see ACTUAL success, just hyping up CLAIMS of success on social media.
They want to produce something without having the skills to produce it. Which, you know, probably isn't uncommon. I'd love to be able to rock out the guitar solo in Avenged Sevenfold's "Bat Country" [0] or "Afterlife" [1] or the first solo in Judas Priest's "Painkiller" [2], but to get to that skill level takes years of practice, which I'm quite frankly not willing to put in.
The difference is the honesty. A vibe coder produces something barely more than "Hello world" and brags about being able to produce software without learning to code. Nobody grabs a guitar, learns two chords, then claims to be a guitarist.
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They want to produce something without having the skills to produce it. Which, you know, probably isn't uncommon. I'd love to be able to rock out the guitar solo in Avenged Sevenfold's "Bat Country" [0] or "Afterlife" [1] or the first solo in Judas Priest's "Painkiller" [2], but to get to that skill level takes years of practice, which I'm quite frankly not willing to put in.
The difference is the honesty. A vibe coder produces something barely more than "Hello world" and brags about being able to produce software without learning to code. Nobody grabs a guitar, learns two chords, then claims to be a guitarist.
[0] (mildly nsfw) https://youtu.be/IHS3qJdxefY?t=137
[1] https://youtu.be/HIRNdveLnJI?t=168
[2] https://youtu.be/nM__lPTWThU?t=129