It's Happening

For two years, every serious developer on YouTube had been poo-pooing the whole thing. Vibe coding. AI slop. "Sure it can make a to-do app, but try anything real."

Then the tune changed. Overnight. Universally.

Andrej Karpathy -- the guy who coined "vibe coding" -- went from 80% manual coding to 80% agent-assisted in a single month. An OpenAI researcher put it bluntly: "I don't write code anymore." Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, shipped 22 PRs in a day, each one 100% written by Claude. He says he hasn't made a small edit by hand in months.

It's hard to call it AI slop when the people who build AI are saying "if you're still coding by hand, you're doing it wrong."

But here's the part that doesn't get enough attention. It's not just coding. I don't check my email anymore. My agent does. I don't search the web and read articles. I get a summary and extend the conversation. I don't use software. I describe what I need and my agent operates the software for me.

That's a quiet inversion. There are no users of software anymore. Users use agents. Agents use software. And increasingly, agents write the software.

Every per-seat SaaS product was built on two assumptions: software is hard to make and hard to use. Both assumptions just broke at the same time.

Think about writing a blog post. The old way: log into WordPress, click "New Post," mess with formatting, upload an image, preview, publish. That starts to seem Neanderthal. I say "/blog-post" and talk about what's on my mind. The post exists. It's on the homepage. It's in the index. There's a placeholder image waiting for me to swap in.

The developers see it first because they're closest to the capability. But the pattern they're living through -- denial, then grudging use, then "wait, this is actually good," then "I can't go back" -- that pattern is about to hit every profession.

It's not coming. It's not starting. It's mid-stride.