If Vibecoding Worked, We’d See a Boom in Small Businesses — Congratulations, You’re a Luddite

The absence of a flood of vibecoded commercial products doesn’t prove the technology doesn’t work. It proves you don’t understand the world you’re standing in.

I've discovered a new wave of Luddites. This time it's not weavers with sledgehammers, nor programmers whining about neural networks taking their jobs. It's product managers.

Their argument is singular, repeated like a mantra: "If vibecoding actually worked, we'd see a massive surge of new, successful commercial IT projects across every sector. But we don't. Instead, every founder is just tinkering with something in their own corner." The conclusion they draw: vibecoding is a dud, a marketing bubble, a toy.

And here is where you want to grab them by the collar and shake them gently.

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