I believe that vibe coding — irrespective of whether it’s useful for enterprises, which I doubt — is being marketed towards consumers in a deeply unethical way. One that’s worryingly reminiscent of multi-level marketing schemes like Herbalife and Amway, or the crypto grifts of the 2010s.

I believe that Replit’s decision to target younger people at a time when they’re struggling to find work, or are convinced that the future workplace has no use for them, is deeply predatory.

Any creator that promotes Replit without being transparent about the likelihood of building a million-dollar app, or about the costs of building software with AI, is either willingly complicit in a cynical, harmful scam, or otherwise promoting a technology that they themselves do not understand.