Vibe coding is the Rothko of tech: when execution gets easy, value moves to vision
floguo · x · 2026-09-23
A widely shared analogy: to a skeptic, a Rothko looks like "I could've done that," but Rothko shifted painting's goal from craftsmanship to emotional resonance—behind the simple canvases were decades of pigment experiments and deliberately engineered viewing conditions (huge canvases hung low in dim rooms). The author argues vibe coding is the same epochal shift: with the barrier to creation collapsed, it looks effortless, almost fraudulent, yet making something good still takes an eye for edge cases and constant rejecting and steering. When execution gets easier, value moves from labor to vision and context.
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