Vibe coding has underdelivered: why waiting for the next model kills software commitment
sull · x · 2026-10-10
A widely shared take argues vibe coding has massively underdelivered on its promise to unleash an explosion of software development, instead creating a generation of people who just wait for the next model to drop.
- Core tension: building and launching something requires focus and commitment, but any frontier model could drop tomorrow and make three months of work obsolete — you can't bet on an idea.
- Security anxiety: even if you ship something useful, the next model could expose a massive vulnerability you never knew about, leaving you handling a DEFCON 1 situation you barely understand.
- The thread captures the indie developer's dilemma in the AI era: lower barriers to building, but model iteration speed dissolves any certainty about what's worth building.
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