“No Duh,” say senior developers everywhere.
The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.
I think right now companies are competing until they’re only 1 or 2 that clearly own the majority of the market.
Afterwards they will devolve back into the same thing search engines are now. A cesspool of sponsored ads and links to useless SEO blogs.
They’ll just become gate keepers of information again and the only ones that will be heard are the ones who pay a fee or game the system.
Maybe not though, I’m usually pretty cynical when it comes to what the incentives of businesses are.