After a year away, a developer returns to confront the meaning crisis of vibe coding
misraturp · x · 2026-10-19
Developer Mısra Turp quit her job just before the AI boom and traveled for a year. Returning to work, the first phrase she encountered was vibe coding. Part 1 of her essay series:
- She assumed the passionate developer community wouldn't really let LLMs write code, make architectural decisions, or ship straight to production — but we naturally take the easiest path, and novelty becomes common.
- Her core questions: if AI handles the code and UI design, how do we make things good? Why does creating a usable interface — once easy — now elude us?
- Deeper still: where did the joy of building go? The series will explore AI's effect on her professional life and intellectual fulfillment.
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