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Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Why This Matters

This article critically examines the hype surrounding vibecoding, highlighting that despite widespread claims, there is no tangible evidence of complex, non-trivial artifacts created through vibecoding tools. It questions the validity of the industry's assertions and emphasizes the importance of evidence-based claims in technological advancements. For consumers and developers, it underscores the need for skepticism and verification before accepting claims about AI capabilities.

Key Takeaways

Where are the vibecoded Photoshops?

If vibecoding is what people say it is, the world should be drowning in vibecoded artifacts right now. Two years of access. Millions of people with the tools. The barrier supposedly fell, right? RIGHT? So where is everything?

Show me the evidence

Where is the vibecoded Photoshop. The vibecoded Excel. The vibecoded Maya. The vibecoded Blender. The vibecoded compiler that compiles itself. The vibecoded database, the vibecoded OS, the vibecoded anything-that-requires-architectural-judgment-to-hold-together. Huh?

I am not asking for slop. Slop exists, slop is easy, slop is not the question. I am asking for the coherent, complex, non-trivial things that vibecoding allegedly makes accessible to anyone who can prompt.

Silence. Every time. The category is empty.

And the accusers never want to address that, because addressing it means admitting the accusation doesn't hold up.

Accusation without evidence

There are no vibecoded Photoshops because vibecoding does not do what the rhetoric claims it does. The accusation itself is the vibe. The accuser feels that a thing must have been easy because it was made with AI. They post that feeling as if it were a finding. The finding never has to be checked, because nobody else checks it either. The accusation travels because it feels right, not because it is right. Big difference.

The accusation that someone produced unverified output is itself being produced as unverified output. Or in other words.. The thing they accuse vibecoders of is the very thing they are doing: No definition. No test. No falsification. Just a claim, shipped fast, never checked. The accusation is the real vibecoded content. The accuser is the vibecoder. They accuse others of the very crime they are committing themselves, and most of them are unaware of doing it.

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